Choose two women from the list of first wave feminists below. You will be researching and writing about each woman. st wave: Maria Stewart,
- Choose two women from the list of first wave feminists below. You will be researching and writing
about each woman.
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st wave: Maria Stewart, Lucrettia Mott, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul,
Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Inez
Milholland. - Research and write about the two women you chose from the lists above
Give us basic biographical information; when and where she was born. Try to provide a detailed
and complete picture of her life in the era in which she lived. If possible, this should include:
family dynamic, marital status, religious background and religious affiliation, race, class etc. Try
to paint a vivid picture of the political, economic, social circumstances and historical events that
influenced and shaped her life, including race, religion, sexual orientation, etc (i.e. her social
locations).
Describe her contributions. What role did she play in the women’s movement? How did her work
shape the lives of future women? How did her contributions impact your life directly or
indirectly? How does learning about her contributions, her political and feminist ideology etc.
impact you?
Relate to her as a living woman. Consider this assignment as an excavation of sorts; you are
resurrecting a lost piece of history and breathing new life into this woman. What is she like? How
do you relate to her? Do you have anything in common? How are you two different? How might
the usual ways we categorize and separate one another become unimportant in the larger context?
How does “getting to know her” impact your perception of women, women’s history, feminism,
and feminists?
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