1. Women’s suffrage: a bad romance

2. women’s suffrage association
Susan B. Anthony
Anti-Slavery Quaker
William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass
Education (U. of Rochester)
The Revolution- Labor movements
Women’s Christian Temperance Union- but believed that Prohibition detracted from women’s suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Both believed they would be rewarded with suffrage by their work on the 13th Amendment----
The Revolution
"Men their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less"

3. Alice Paul
1913 NAWSA (Nat’l Women’s Suffrage Ass.) Parade the day before Wilson’s Inauguration
1916 NWP (Nat’l Women’s Party) created ---more “radical” approaches

4. Birth control
Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
Controlling the pop growth rate via positive or preventative checks
1870’s- “voluntary” motherhood
Midwives a threat?
Race-suicide in the 1800’s?
“protecting” women vs. controlling their roles in society

5. Media Attention The Knowlton Trial- Comstock Act and laws (1914)
Charles Knowlton’s Fruits of Philosophy (1877)
It’s "...more moral to prevent the conception of children, than, after they are born, to murder them by want of food, air and clothing.” Annie Beasant & Charles Bradlaugh
Comstock Act and laws (1914)
prohibited distribution of any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail
The Woman Rebel (1916)- Sanger
1921 The 1st Birth Control Clinic
Marie Stopes & the Malthusian League in Great Britain

6. Progress? WW1- venereal disease
Scientific research legitimized topic & discussion, transforming morals into public health
1923- Sanger’s 2nd BC Clinic= success w/o arrest
1942- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Still Much to be Done

7. Silent sentinels
1917- First political protest to picket at the White House
Edith Galt Wilson
Non-Violent civil-disobedience campaign
Occoquan Workhouse
Hunger strikes
“Mrs. Lawrence Lewis…and Miss Lucy Burns…were removed from Occoquan to jail Tuesday, where they were forcibly fed, Miss Burns by means of a tube through the nose.”

8. Occoquan, VA
“The worst misery was the food, one prisoner wrote, describing rancid meat, corn bread green with mold, grits containing worms, rat droppings and dead flies. We tried to make sport of the worm hunt, reported another, but when one prisoner reached fifteen worms during one meal, it spoiled our zest for the game. There was no sanitation, and the women were forced into intimate contact with regular inmates who, though obviously suffering from contagious diseases, received no medical attention. To many the worst punishment was the almost total isolation. Even their lawyers rarely got in, and then only under tight restrictions.”

9. Alice Paul
At the end of two weeks of solitary confinement…without any exercise, without going outside of our cells, some of the prisoners were released, having finished their terms….With our number thus diminished to seven…the doors were unlocked and we were permitted to take exercise. Rose Winslow fainted as soon as she got into the yard….I was too weak to move from my bed. Rose and I were taken on stretchers that night to the hospital….Here we decided upon…the ultimate form of protest left us — the strongest weapon left with which to continue…our battle….

10. Hunger Strikes
Three times a day for fourteen days Alice Paul and Rose Winslow have been going through the torture of forcible feeding. I know what that torture is. The horrible griping and gagging of swallowing six inches of stiff rubber tubing-[it] is not to be imagined. That over, there is the ordeal of waiting while the liquids are poured through-then the withdrawal of that tube! With streaming eyes and parched, burning throat, one wonders how the people of this nation already tasting blood and pain can let this be done….