PART 1
1. How did African American women approach the issues of reform and suffrage?
African American women approached the issues of reform and suffrage very strongly and seriously. During the late nineteenth century, African women began to show their voices and the strength of their collective organization through the women’s club movement. These clubs provided its members with intellectually inspiring opportunities, also expanded their skills and increased their self confidence. Moreover, the women’s clubs kept women away from isolation of domestic life.
2. How do you explain the final success of the long drive to enfranchise women?
The final success of the long drive to enfranchise women started as the women began changing the views of the society that men worked outside the home and women worked in domestic housework and serving their husbands. Furthermore, they did this by creating organizations. Soon the national women’s suffrage movement and the American women’s suffrage movement came together and became NAWSA. This opened up their passage to vote in many states.
3. Describe the rise of women's trade/labor organizations.
The increase of the vast majority of women in the work force drew the rise of women’s trade/labor organization. Women began to work in professional fields and started to demand for more work and equal pay. Since they were getting little help from the trade union movement they decided to form the women’s trade union league. Compared to before individually they were afraid to speak and have their voices heard and now women are working as a team and forming unions and clubs to get what they want which is a huge leap to success. To get less hours and more benefits, they held strikes and finally got what they wanted.
PART 2
1. Why does Margaret Sanger refer to pregnancy as a “chronic condition?”
I believe Margaret Sanger refers to pregnancy as a “chronic condition because immigrant women were held from having abortion by the drugstores refusing to supply them with birth control. Because of this women were having children left and right which was very difficult for them both physically and economically due to their poor poverty condition. They were not able to raise these children with the necessities they deserved. Also their child – bearing was constant and never ending and they were being held from the one thing that could possibly save them. Moreover, the result of constant child- bearing left women’s bodies unable to function around their 30’s so they died an early age.
2. Does this excerpt offer any clues as to why birth control information could not be easily or legally disseminated?
The time period is a clue to why birth control information could not be easily or legally disseminated. During this time people were very religious and the birth of a child was a blessing of God and it shouldn’t be taken away. Moreover, Priests would tell women who considered buying condoms or having an abortion that they would be haunted by the faces of their unborn child. Abortion was against the law and it was as if you are taking a life so it was not allowed. Society and the law did not grant a woman the right of choice to have an abortion. Moreover, if an individual bought a single condom during this time they would be considered a criminal in 30 states. Women’s voice was ignored during this time and the separate sphere of men being dominated over women held women back from their voices being heard. Basically women were not able to get the help they deserved because they were not able to get their voices across. And for women to get their voice across would give them the chance to address other issues
3. Who was the intended audience for this story? Why might Sanger have included it in her Autobiography?
I believe Sanger wanted to target women and get her story across to teach women that they have a choice and not to be slaves of child-bearing. Also I believe she just wanted to educate the society and raise her voice about the truth. I believe Sanger included the story of Sadie Sachs because it changed her life; it was the death of Sadie Sachs that convinced her to devote her life to making dependable information available to women.
4. Is there a moral to this story? Do you believe Sanger was an antiabortionist? Why did she grieve? Was it for the unborn child or for the mother’s predicament? In your opinion, was the doctor’s attitude acceptable?
I believe the moral of this story is to take action and be aware of the consequences. Sanger in my opinion was not an antiabortionist. Sanger wanted women to have a choice with what they do with their bodies but also to be aware that constant abortion is also not right. I think that she grieved for the mother’s predicament and for the fact that the mother won’t see her unborn child. Also because she was close to the mother and grieved to see the harsh conditions she endured. I believe the doctor was at fault because he did not do anything in his power to help; although, how can you blame a man who is doing what he is instructed to do so. His beliefs in the society held him back from helping which is something you can’t change.
4 comments:
Sandy said for part 1
I agree with you. The black women approached the issues of suffrage very seriously. They improved themselves in many fields, which helped them to strength their self-confidant.
the women started working outside their houses by establishing the movement organization, which made them strong enough to ask for more , and as you said all because of the women who worked as a team to form clubs and unions and talk about their rights all together.
Part 2
Yes, I think that was the reason that Margret said that pregnancy is chronic condition; Keep having abortion was not safe and healthy for women, but they had no other choice, especially for working women, who had no time or enough money to have and raise many children.
I did not get this point, that the birth control pills were illegal. May be it was religious thing, but the people were doing the worse by abortion babies. They were not having the babies because they were not capable to raise that child.
I think Sanger was antiabortionist
because she was a nurse, and she knew very well what the women's body going through when they have abortion, especially two or three times.
Response Ani I. P1-Q1:
African American women had finally had the courage to organize a group to fight for their right. For many years, they were the least privileged, they were discriminated, and they were the most suffered women. Even during this time, they were still isolated and segregated from other women who were fighting for the same cause – the right to have equal rights. They had enough of the sufferings and finally formed a group of their color. They wanted to taste of real freedom, life and happiness in the society. They have shown they have enough of the deprivation and they do deserve the same rights as anyone does.
Response Ani I. P1-Q2:
I am so inspired by the women who fight for their rights during this time. What would have happen to women today if this did not happen? The women ultimately had the courage to make a difference in their lives. They did not allow themselves to remain in their homes, but become better individuals, better participants in the society. It was definitely a long drive to reach their goals; however, it did pay off. If not for their drive to reach their goals, the lives of women today would be very different.
Response Ani I. P1-Q3 :
The women had to do something about the discrimination and unfairness they were experiencing during this time. The joint forces of women made the trade and labor organizations successful. The men who were usually the employers, they made sure that women do not get what the women were asking for and also, the men wanted to the women to remain their place in the home. Although, the women had worked very hard, a lot of time and effort had been put into it to get what they wanted – equal rights, better wages, better benefits, and better working conditions.
Part One
1.I agree with the fact that the African Americans did take the issues of suffrage very strongly, because I think they knew it was a time for them to step up and fight for their rights. By coming together and joining organizations they got their voice across.
2. It was about time that women tried to make their voices and opinions heard and by finally making it clear that they weren’t just for the domestic life and cooking and cleaning but they also wanted to work and have jobs and live the public life and get to do all the things that men did.
3. I agree that once there was a rise in women working they started demanding for more work and pay, because women were working long hours with little pay. Once again women gathered together and formed the union league, because they knew that one voice was never paid attention to but when they joined together and fought for there rights they got what they wanted.
Part 1
I totally agree with you African American women were really serious on
the issues of reform and suffrage. This was really a time that they grew as a whole. They finally knew that they could make a difference.
The drive of enfranchise women really helped women it gave them to right to vote and finally have a say.
Women in trade/labor really gave women the push to make it on their own. They had things that people wanted and they used that to there advantage.
Part 2
You did a great job in explaining the chronic condition of being pregnant. I could not believe how the drugstores treated women. Birth control was a great invention but the people who wanted it could not get their hands on it.
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