Womens Movement

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Womens Movement

• as Multiple Issues

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• Child Labor Florence Kelley
• 1. To what does Kelley attribute child labor?
• 2. What other factors are apparent in Kelleys
  examples, and what factors does Kelley ignore
  (perhaps due to class bias)?

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• Womens Labor Laws
• Muller v. Oregon NWTUL
• 1. What seem to be pros and cons of the arguments
  used to justify protective laws for women
  laborers?
• 2. How does the case compare with NWTULs
  legislative goals?
• Note 1908-1917 17 states followed suit
• Reproduction gt theoretical individual freedom of
  contract
• Exclusions

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• Integrative Social Conditions Ward
• 1. How did Ward use the new field of sociology to
  reevaluate gender differences?
• 2. What changes did he want to convince Americans
  to make?
• 3. How broad would his audience be and why?

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• Suffrage DuBois essay
• 1. What various tactics did Blatch use?
• 2. How did the tactics challenge the status quo
  of the suffrage movement or of society?
• 3. How were the tactics effective?
• 4. Before Ellen DuBois singled out Harriet
  Blatch, she had not received much attention. What
  does the story of Blatchs work contribute to
  womens history?

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• Suffrage Groups for
• 1. Shaw 2. Schepps 3. NAWSA 4. Catt
• 5. Paul 6. Clarke 7. Rhodes 8.
  Crothers
• 9. Terrell 10. DuBois 11. Ellis
• 1. What is the main argument?
• 2. How and how effectively does the author
  argue?with humor, irony, rage, idealism, use of
  authors gender.
• 3. Who was the audience, and why would this
  argument be persuasive or not to them?
• 4. What new info. does the text give us about the
  movement to gain the vote?