GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich
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Lecture 3-2-17 global feminisms and the international women"s movement. Industrialization/ urbanization - women: greater independence from family, new forms of exploitation for poor: low wages, sexual harassment, unemployment. Reversing the genealogy: women"s movement developed from abolitionism of white at seneca falls in 1840 standards of living improve split between black and white women (conventional story) corrected story: us fem movement from african descent not european. Back to early 1800s, about slavery and racism; sojourner truth, harriet tubman. In this denial of the right to participate in government : susan b. anthony joins the cause. Frustrations for black feminists: 15th am: black men"s right to vote. 1880-1930: blacks were still lynched and threatened: whites said they did it for communal protection , black woman seen as immoral , Black feminist resistance: wells becomes founding member of naacp (1909, anti-lynching crusades unit women of color.
