The movement did start in upper class because those women were much more educated. But the challenges that they faced were different. These women often didn’t work and they stayed home. After the women’s movement, they had just started to make a bigger presence in the workplace
Funny…You never mentioned Sojurner Truth Ida B. Welles, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Margaretta Forten, Harriet Forten Purvis. Why is that? You seem to percieve that before feminism, that things were much better for
all women.
Like I said, The non white experience with feminism is very different from the White majority model. You have to seperate them according to socioeconomic class experience. African American women regarded their families with higher esteem since for over 400 years, the hadn’t the luxery of being in a stable family. Ther husbands were taken from them and their children were often sold. They were not allowed to observe marriage like White women were so they didn’t regard it as the “prison” that white feminist writers had. They just wanted their rights.
Lol again silly and niave. That Untoucable & pure BS only applied to white women. Black women were considered dirty little hussys and compared to animals. Black women were raped and abused ALL the time but they had no legal recourse against them. No one cared about a black woman’s “virtue” Are you saying that black slave women were fearful of being raped because of feminism? Women have always wanted to have sex with men, To infer otherwise is proposterous.
After all, if men were having sex more than women pre-feminism just WHO were they having sex with? Other men?
How do you presume to speak for any woman at all? I personally would NOT like things to go back to how they were before because there was nothing for me to go back to, save my Native American heritage which was Matrilineal in nature. I have nothing to benafit from a pre feminist society. I wouldn’t be able to vote, travel the world, Attend most colleges, own my own land, or have any say in politics or the economy. I wouldn’t have been blessed with all the wonderful expereinces that have been denied women over the years. The other poster was correct, we are going backwards in regards to feminism, Girls only care about being attractive to the opposite sex which is always a marker that women becoming dependant on mates to do things that women in the last few decades have done themselves. Women often did this because they felt powerless to do anything else and manipulating men through sex was their only way. That is not a feministic ideal. the feminist ideal is to use your mind and talents to achieve. Sex and the City isn’t the reality of America, In truth more girls aspire to be a stupid whore like Paris than a smart whore like Samantha Jones. It requires no effort, no diligience or intelligence. It seems to me like Eds dream is coming true already. Soon every American girl will be going back to gold digging for a husband.
I have no argument with you about the inherent evil of RACISM, which is what you are describing in your posts. I agree completely that black women, and minority women in general, were victimized by institutional racism and that the Suffrage movement, whose members did include the names you cited, originally set out to address the harsh and inhumane inequality that existed for many black women. But the Suffragists and the feminists of the 60’s “revolution” have very little in common and should not be lumped together as one group.
