The+Movement+for+Women's+Rights

Chermaine Amaya

The Movement for Women's Rights


 * difficult for women to secure divorces
 * property laws gave husbands complete control over wives
 * middle-class women gained access to higher education
 * "women in white"
 * Sieveking
 * nusing pioneer
 * Nightingale
 * nurse during Crimean War
 * Barton
 * nurse during American Civil War
 * feminist
 * right to vote key to all other reforms
 * Fawcett
 * organized moderate group who believed women must demonstrated political power if wanted Parliament to grant right to vote
 * Pankhurst
 * Suffragists
 * wored peacefully for vote
 * Women's Social and Plitical Union
 * pursued militant campaign (heckling political speakers, breaking church windows, and committing arson)
 * Davison
 * threw herself in front of king's horse
 * Suttner
 * Austrian Peace Society
 * //Lay Down Your Arms//
 * the new woman
 * renounce traditional feminine roles
 * Montessori
 * medical school to medical degree
 * follow rational, scientific perspective

Bibliography: APEC Textbook The Princeton Review (2011) AP European History Exam []

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