3. First Wave - Goals
• Suffrage
• 19th Amendment
• Abolitionist Movement
• Somewhat abandoned when African-Americans Gained
the right to vote
• Temperance Movement
• Prohibition
4. First Wave -Achievements
• Seneca Falls Convention 1848
• Formal founding of Feminism
• 300 Women and Men
• Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I a Woman” – 1851
• University of Iowa – 1955
• Married Woman's Property Act – 1960
• Ida B. Wells’ work Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its
Phases - 1892
5. First Wave -Achievements
• The March for Women’s Suffrage in Washington
D.C. – 1913
• WWI
• 19th Amendment
6. First Wave - Downfalls
• Married or widowed > unmarried
• Still questioned racial suffrage
• Some felt superiority
• Mothers and nurturing = More fit to lead
7. First Wave - Criticisms
• Threatening man-haters
• Weak and clueless
• Ugly and witch like
8. Between the First and Second Waves
• Great Depression
• Total suffering diminished the concern for women's issues
• WWII
• New job opportunities
• Rosie the Riveter
• Supported the war effort
• Created a sense of self sufficiency
9. Between the First and Second Waves
• Post WWII
• Men came home to reclaim their previous jobs
• Left women with a taste of independence
• Led to a new culture of domesticity
• Less women working in 1960 than in 1930
10. Second Wave
• Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique – 1963
• PCSW-1963
• Inequality in the workplace
• Equal Pay Act of 1963
11. Second Wave
• National Organization for Women -1966
• Freedom and equality for women
• Specifically stated that they were not man-haters
• Also did not want special treatment for women
• Achievements
• ERA – 1972
• Title IX Education Amendment - 1972
• Women’s Liberation Movement
• Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City - 1968
• Freedom Trash Can
• Media attention
12. Third Wave
• Rebecca Walker’s Becoming the Third Wave
• Clarence Thomas
• Inequality for women
• Widespread public reaction
• Started the Third Wave
13. Third Wave
• Third Wave Direct Action Corporation
• Freedom Summer ’92
• 20,000 new voters
14. Third Wave
• Issues
• Gender violence
• Reproductive rights
• Rape
• Derogatory terms
• Inequality in the workplace
• Unequal treatment
• Sexual assault
15. Reason for the Connotations
• Each Wave Has Contributed:
• First Wave
• Second Wave
• Third Wave
