In which John Green finally gets around to talking about some women’s history. WOMEN IN THE 19TH CENTURY: INTRODUCTIONEuropean and American women in the nineteenth century lived in an age characterized by gender inequality. Women’s journals of the nineteenth century [microform] RECAP Microfilm 09665 4 reels Printed guide: Firestone Microforms PN5124.W6 W66 Consists of two important feminist periodicals of the late 19th century: The Women’s penny paper and Woman’s herald, 1888-1893. Women’s suffrage leaders, however, disagreed over strategy and tactics: whether to seek the vote at the federal or state … This site from PBS offers an overview of the lives of these two remarkable women and the 19th century women's movement. Alma Mater: design and experience in the women’s colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz; Catharine Beecher: a study in American domesticity, by Kathryn Kish Sklar; Four Lives in Science: women’s education in the nineteenth century, by Lois Arnold This reform effort encompassed a broad spectrum of goals before its leaders decided to focus first on securing the vote for women. Women of all classes in early 19th Century American history were politically powerless and forced to conform to the dependence on males. First part here: Black Women Writers of the 19th Century Black Women Writers Through Civil War and Reconstruction The nineteenth century was a formative period in African-American literary and cultural history. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century … In addition, most work on women before 1700 has been published since 1980. The fight for women’s suffrage in the United States began with the women’s rights movement in the mid-nineteenth century. The American experiment that began as a Republic after ratification of the Constitution created political, social, and economic participation for its citizens, but not for women. At the beginning of the century, women enjoyed few of the legal, social, or political rights that are now taken for granted in western countries: they could not vote, could not sue or be sued, could not testify in court, … American women, if we accept Beecher’s views as the mainstream of nineteenth-century gender norms, dominated religion, morality, and benevolence. Yet there were few sporting outlets for poor women who had athletic gifts and aspirations. Also includes information on teaching the history of women's rights; selected essays, articles, and original documents; biographical information; and suggested reading lists. The Subjection of Women (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text and page images) Filed under: Women's rights -- France -- History -- 19th century. Law and practice forbade teaching blacks to read or write. This double standard persisted long after slavery was abolished: elite women did not exert themselves; their (female) servants did. Nineteenth century America idealized white woman’s modesty, frowning on sports as a threat to elite females’ fertility. In the late 19th century, a growing number of groups organized to work for higher wages and better working conditions for women workers. Filed under: Women's rights -- History -- 19th century. They generally exerted their influence through the home, a utopian space that nurtured children and sheltered husbands. ... Jone Johnson Lewis is a women's history writer who has been involved with the women's movement since the late 1960s. The history of Scottish women in the late 19th century and early 20th century was not fully developed as a field of study until the 1980s. Suffrage History She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute.