2. Arrangement
Emancipation – concept explanation/
Introduction
Womens emancipation in the USA
Indian women/ Puritan women
Women´s emancipation in the USA
Prospect – emancipation is still a subject
3. Emancipation – concept explanation/
Introduction
Basic thoughts came from the 18th century
Enlightment
French Revolution
Declaration of the
rights of men and
citizens
4. Emancipation – concept explanation/
Introduction
“Women have the right
to mount the scaffold,
they must also have
the right to mount the
speaker’s rostrum”
Olympe de Gouges in
the Declaration of the
Rights of Woman and
the Female Citizen
1791
7. History of the women's movement in the USA
Lucretia Mott Elisabeth Cady Stanton
8. History of the women's movement in the USA
1840 London - World
congress for the
abolition of slavery
1848 Women's rights
congress in Seneca
Falls
Seneca Falls
Declaration
9. History of the women's movement in the USA
1890 National
AmericanWomen‘
SuffrageAssociation
(NWSA)
Founded by Susan B.
Anthony and Elisabeth
Cady Stanton
10. History of the women's movement in the USA
Suffragette‘s
movement
14. History of the women's movement in the USA
Victoria
Woodhull
15. History of the women's movement in the USA
April 1870 Victoria
Woodhull declared herself
as a presidential candidate
16. History of the women's movement in the USA
“While others maintained the equality of women
and men, I proved them by successful business
engagement; while others tried to show that
there would be no valid reasons to treat women
towards men as social and politically inferior, I
entered daringly the arena of the business world
and used the rights which I already owned”.
Victoria Woodhull
17. History of the women's movement in the USA
Women's franchise in America came into force in
1920
For comparison:
Finland: 1906
Germany: 1919
Great Britain: 1928
Turkey: 1930
Iran: 1963
Switzerland: 1971
Liechtenstein: 1984
