Questions for exploring the lives of women who sought change
The purpose of this exercise is to produce notes that will help you to
- Determine what changes in roles and opportunities women sought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
- Establish the goals they set for themselves to create new roles and opportunities,
- Assess just how successful they were
- Determine if there is anything left to be done
At the end of the term, this material will be your source material for the final examination. That means you want to make sure you complete these assignments and keep track of them so you can use them to organize for the final.
Here are questions you will need to answer. You will need to submit your answers to Turnitin and to bring a hard copy to class on the assigned date. Late work will NOT be accepted and this means for both the Turnitin and hard copy requirement.
To complete this assignment, you need a write few words. In other words, you do NOT need to write paragraphs, or essays.
For example, in answering to the first question, you might say that Angelina and Sarah Grimke tried, at least when they were young, but later Sarah joined the Quakers, and..., while Angelina became an abolitionist and ....
1. Does/do the woman or women in this essay accept the roles and social expectations assigned to women? In other words do the woman or women in this essay fit that "ideal picture? Identify key facts that you will be able to use to support your position.
2. Do the actions of these women represent any challenges to patriarchal attitudes and/or the laws of femme covert? Again, be sure to list facts that you will support your position. You want to be careful here to see if there are concrete criticisms of the legal system or just challenges to public opinion.
3. If there are challenges to tradition, do we see concrete goals and strategies for changing traditional roles and /or changing the law? If so, what are the goals and strategies?
4. What facts about the era stand out to you? What do you think makes them interesting to you? Did the essay add anything that was not in the textbook?
5. List the primary sources are identified in this essay.