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Thanks
for your note to Feminist.com--and
for thinking us for help with
your research. I think that
you just haven't looked in the
right place of Feminist.com
for information about women's
history. For instance, if you
look at Ask Amy and the
Q&A's listed under Women's
History, you will find lots
of information about women's
history, including information
about the 19th Amendment. In
short, the feminist movement
is historically broken down
into three ways--the first being
that which emerged during the
mid-1800s and culminated in
women winning the right to vote
in 1920. (Native American women
were active long before this,
but that doesn't usually make
it's way into the history books.)
However, these first wave warriors
also made is possible for women
to own and inherit property,
to divorce, to have custody
of their children, to have a
right to their wages and for
black men and women to be citizens.
The
second wave really began with
Alice Pauls call for an Equal
Rights Amendment in the early
1920s--and since we don't yet
have and ERA, we still have
an active Second Wave that has
attained other legal standing
for women--they integrated the
little league, private clubs,
schools, etc... They also made
rape, domestic violence, sexual
harassment and discrimination
illegal.
Now,
has come along the Third Wave--to
help with the Second Wave in
its legal battles, but also
to change consciousness--to
put feminism out into the culture
so we all breathe it in. When
that is done--someone wouldn't
even dare rape or pay a woman
less. It will simply be unthinkable.
I hope that helps with your
research. Read more here at Ask Amy's
Women's History section
for further information.
—Amy
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