Les Femmes et lAlphabet

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Les Femmes et lAlphabet

• Martha Parris
• le 18 mars, 2003

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Les Femmes et lAlphabet

• Doivent-elles
• lapprendre?

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Woman must be either a subject or an equal

• Monarchy vs Democracy
• Monarchy views masses as children to be governed.
• Democracy views masses as mature beings who may
  govern themselves.

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Politics

• At present (1859) there is no aristocracy save
  sex All men are born patrician, all women are
  legally plebian all men are equal in having
  power and all women equal in having none.
  Carrie Catt

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A New Era

• Time has brought peace peace, invention and
  the poorest woman of to-day is born to an
  inheritance such as her ancestors never dreamed
  of. Carrie Catt

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Tout est Possible
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A Changing Future

• Cartoon showing a woman carrying buckets on a
  yoke, looking up at ladder ascending up to the
  sky,
• bottom rungs labeled "Slavery," "House Drudgery,"
  and "Shop Work."
• Top rungs labeled "Equal Suffrage," "Wage
  Equity," and "Presidency."

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Legal Rights

• 1859 .vast changes over the past twelve
  years.no trumpet sounded, no earthquake felt
  while State after State has ushered into legal
  existence one half of the population Carrie Catt

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Legal Rights (1859)

• Separate control of property,
• Control of own earnings,
• Equal participation of the sexes in education in
  Boston

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Work and Education

• Ought women to learn the alphabet?
• Women excluded from learning work skills.
• Women excluded from education.

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American Suffragists

• Carrie C. Catt
• Anna H. Shaw
• Lucy Stone
• Sojourner Truth

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Voting in 1920
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French Suffragettes

• Olympe de Gouges
• Hubertine Auclert
• Georges Sand
• Flora Tristan

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Justice Demands the Vote
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France 1945
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• Images and quotations used by gracious permission
  of the
• Library of Congress,
• the American Memory Collection.