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The importance of particular women in the history of women's liberation. Particularly discussed is the issue of women's rights and acceptance as equal contributors in society.

Its ok melissa, I saw that and do I did not annotate and I found another source, but I couldnt delete the share. No worries.

Okay- I was just confused- couldn't figure out how that happened-

This website is a very interesting place to read the timeline of the American women's rights movement. It goes all the way back to 1848 up to today. We can see various key events of the movement which slowly led up to the formation of Planned Parenthood as well as the FDA approval of birth control and the legalization of abortion. It is a very good resource to see how the movement evolved as well as the timeline of each important milestone achieved along the process all the way to 2009.

This is a great site that breifly sums up the Women's Right Movement from 1848 to 1920, although women fought for many years after. It describes the events that took place at the convention in Seneca Falls, NY where activists gathered to discuss many reforms. It was at this convention that Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the treatise that called for women's right to vote and insisted that women be granted "immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States."

This site discusses the rise of feminism in the 1960s - 1970s. This movement is also known as the Second Wave of Feminism. The first wave occurred during the late 1800s and early 1900s - women banded together for voting rights. The second wave focused on overall discrimination against women and their natural rights. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed. Their goals were Women's rights in abortion,Anti-job discrimination, Domestic violence, and same educational opportunities. Overall, the organization strived for women equality among men. During this period many other women rights groups were organized such as Female Liberation, Redstockings, and Bread and Roses just to name a few. The article relates to the image as Donna Gottschalk was a feminist who fought for women's rights and equality.

This site talks of the progression of a fight that lasted almost a century. The struggle for women's rights had its phases, encouragements and lead activists. In a few sections, the suffragists, the influence voting rights being granted to African American men had. and the arrival of the 19th Amendment.

This webpage explores the three waves of feminism. The first is the one that we usually think of when we think about early feminism, Rosie the Riveter, yes we can and suffrage. The second wave coincided with many other civil rights activist groups, we saw the introduction of women of color and lower class women. We saw a focus on family, sexuality and reproductive rights. The third, and current, wave is about defining roles and identities for themselves and not based on patriarchy or misogyny. It's okay to embrace sexuality, sexualized appearances, etc, as long as it's a choice and not forced.

This particular link is to an article on the history of women's education and rights to equal rights in terms of receiving the same education as do their male counterparts.  The website, as a whole, provides great insight into the history of women's rights in many aspects. It also traces the triumphs and successes of women throughout history. 

This entry is specifically for the first section of a long report. This section gives useful background information of what America was encountering during this time period with respect to women's rights, civil rights, and lgbt rights in the 1970's. I appreciated the basic information provided revolving around famous protests that are now often discussed when discussing civil rights and feminism in the 1970's. This source helps provide context to the photograph in that it informs you about the cultural climate of society around the time this photograph was taken.

I though it important to clarify the main definitions of change that has taken place, embracing women, leading further to equality. This was prompt by the image of Donna Gottschalk, her viewpoint and voice from a female perspective, being a feminist. Feminist and its history refer to the re-reading of history from a female perspective. It is not the same as the history of feminism, which outlines the origins and evolution of the feminist movement. It also differs from women's history, which focuses on the role of women in historical events. The goal of a feminist and the history is to explore and illuminate the female viewpoint of history through rediscovery of female writers, artists, philosophers, etc., in order to recover and demonstrate the significance of women's voices and choices in the past. Two particular problems which feminist history attempts to address are the exclusion of women from the historical and philosophical tradition, and the negative characterization of women or the feminine therein; however, feminist history is not solely concerned with issues of gender per se, but rather with the reinterpretation of history in a more holistic and balanced manner. "If we take feminism to be that cast of mind that insists that the differences and inequalities between the sexes are the result of historical processes and are not blindly "natural," we can understand why feminist history has always had a dual mission-on the one hand to recover the lives, experiences, and mentalities of women from the condescension and obscurity in which they have been so unnaturally placed, and on the other to reexamine and rewrite the entire historical narrative to reveal the construction and workings of gender." -Susan Pedersen This site is then useful in exploring the image because Donna Gottschalk, has through writing, art and voice of the past address not only the exclusion of women in traditional history, but the negative characteristics placed on the LGBT communi

The multimedia presentation on the 1970's Women's Liberation Movement pays homage to some of the most influential leaders in the fight for female equality. Including moments like Billie Jean King's famous "battle of the sexes" tennis match, this video gives the viewer a glimpse into many of the victories that women achieved in the progression of the female presence in the United States. Striking photographs combined with video and audio recordings bring life to a great decade of change for women, and the belief that sex and gender should not affect human rights for Americans.

Today, we can look back and say: "It was worth it." However, be sure to know that the effort Rosa Parks made was changed many things in the world. Locally, it gave African Americans rights. It eliminated segregation between whites and blacks, it reduced the lynching of blacks by racial organizations. (i.e. Ku Klux Klan) Rosa Parks actions enacted law protecting the civil rights of African Americas and later on served as basis of creating more laws, even as far as protecting women's rights. Even though many things have changed and many bottles have been fought and won; we still are not there. Thank you Rosa Parks for your courage in really trouble times.

Did you know that Rosa Parks was not the first woman to refuse to give up her seat to a white passenger? This link is the biography of Claudette Colvin who at the age of fifteen (That's right, 15) refused to give up her seat for a white passenger in Montgomery Alabama. The reason her arrest was not used by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was because of her age and the fact that she got pregnant around the same time she got arrested. Claudette's incident happened nine months before the better known Rosa Parks incident.

This was a blog entry that I found regarding how closely gay rights and women's rights are related. This offer gives some insight into how many women felt during the 1970s.

This short article on msmagazine.com describes ten things that American Women could not do before the 1970s. It is an eye opening list of basic things that might be taken for granted today. One strong example of the discrimination is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 which apparently had to be passed as women were able to get fired for being pregnant before its passage. In 1973 Roe vs. Wade protected a woman's right to an abortion up to a certain stage. Before that landmark decision, it was illegal to have an abortion in most cases.

In 1960, the world of American women was limited in almost every respect, from family life to the workplace. A woman was expected to They were legally subject to their husbands via "head and master laws," and they had no legal right to any of their husbands' earnings or property, aside from a limited right to "proper support"; husbands, however, would control their wives' property and earnings. Working women were paid lower salaries than men and denied opportunities promotions. The feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s originally focused on equality in the workplace, such as denial of access to better jobs and salary. Later they began to fight for "women's liberation" which included gaining control of their own private lives. This relates to the image as Donna Gottschalk was a feminist also fighting for women equality as well as gay rights.

This site shows a timeline of how women's rights evolved in the 1970s. Some of the key events begin with the 1973 decision that granted women the right to vote. My personal favorite is in 1974 when little league baseball became open to girls.

This site lists a number of her achievements from 1979 to 2000. In 1979 the NAACP award her the Spinard medal which is the NAACP's highest honor. In 1983, she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. In September of 1992, Rosa Parks was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award for her years of community service and her life time effort to promote social change through non violent means. Also in 1992, she published two books. One is called My Story and the other Quiet Strength. I feel that quiet strength is what she executed that day on the bus. In 2000, the State of Alabama awarded Rosa Parks the Governor's Medal of Honor for Extraordinary Courage.

This article has a lot of pictures of the women's rights era. The article gives insight into how many demonstrators participated in Liberty Island protests.

The Birth Control Pill introduction into society was instrumental to the feminist movement and sexual revolution in the 1960s. Young, single women, who, with the help of this new contraception, took personal control of their sexuality. Sex before marriage entailed risk. Each and every time an unmarried woman had intercourse, she risked pregnancy, and was left to face life-changing options such as an illegal abortion, a shotgun wedding, forced adoption, or single motherhood of a child whose birth certificate would be stamped for posterity with the word "illegitimate. The Pill allowed American women to delay marriage and motherhood, while remaining sexually active. Women were able to control there time of pregnancy allow them to get a higher education and obtain better positions in the labor market. This article relates to the image as it demonstrations how the Pill became an effective tool in the women's right movement.