1st Assignment
https://www.nwhm.org/html/exhibits/rightsforwomen/index.html
Watch Iron Jawed Angels and fill out the following questions.
Questions for Iron-Jawed Angels
1. Why doesn’t Carrie Catt like Alice Paul or Lucy Burns?
2. Why doesn’t Carrie Catt support a federal amendment to the Constitution?
3. Why does Alice Paul want to have a parade?
4. How are Alice Paul’s strategies different from Carrie Catt’s strategies?
5. Why do Alice Paul and Lucy Burns split from NAWSA (The National American Women’s Suffrage Association) and create the NWP (The National Women’s Party)?
6. Why do some of the suffragists want to stop protesting in front of the White House once World War I begins?
7. Why does Alice Paul decide to continue the protesting despite the fact that the country is at war?
8. Why does Alice Paul begin a hunger strike?
9. Why does President Wilson decide to finally support the amendment to give women the right to vote?
10. How does an amendment to the Constitution get passed? (How many states need to ratify it?)
2nd Assignment
In “The Problem with No Name,” Betty Friedan describes the experiences of many American women and her book became important to a particular strain of feminist activism. However, as Beverly Guy-Sheftall notes in her video clip, many women felt left out by feminist activism. They felt like when activists used the term “women” their experiences weren’t being included. Thinking critically about the passage of Betty Friedan’s writing you read, which women is she talking about? Which women are being left out? Do you think it was useful for Friedan to use the term “women” when she was speaking about a particular type of woman? What do you think Beverly Guy-Sheftall might say about “The Problem that Has No Name”? In your answer, answer all three of these questions, and also you should engage with the main ideas in both Friedan’s text and Guy-Sheftall’s video.

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