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Introduction Much of the little that we know about women’s lives in the classical period was written by men. Although Herodotus and Thucydides were prolific, they had little to say about the role of women in society. Many later historians who examined women’s roles did so through a misogynist lens, viewing women, in only their traditional roles as wife and mother. However, as women’s studies programs have developed, there has been renewed scholarship about the lives of women

In Phillip Nord’s “The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France” his central thesis is that the Third Republic’s longevity was due to the evolution of thought in various organizations and groups which helped to catapult democratic thought into the public sphere. Following the French Revolution and the collapse of earlier Republican governments established in 1792 and again in 1848, the Third Republic was founded in 1870. This parliamentary democ

In my analysis of these two documents, “A Place in the Sun” by Kaiser Wilhelm II and “The Influence of Sea Power on History” by Alfred T. Mahan, we see many clues about the national policies of Germany and the United States especially concerning each countries priority to build up naval power. This prioritization of naval power stems from both country’s desire to compete with other great naval powers, particularly Great Britain, and to develop commercial markets and, once de

In Prince Albert’s speech at the banquet hosted by the Right Honorable The Lord Mayor, Thomas Farncombe about The Great Exhibition of 1851, he identified three sources of order and peace to those assembled; those addressed by principles of commonweal, globalization, and the victory of man over nature as exemplified in science and industry. As explained by Professor Kim, “Victorian England embraced a progressive political tradition” (Kim, Course Notes, Week 6). The two politic

Prince Klemens von Metternich held firmly to the conservative view that only those who were destined to rule should rule, that is, he believed in hereditary legitimacy and authority. Those who had come to power, like Napoleon, without a hereditary right to rule were a key contributing factor to the upset of the balance of power and revolution in Europe. In his Political Confession of Faith, 1820, he cites three causes for revolution; weak government, degradation of religion a

The authors of “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” were influenced by the excitement of the American Revolution and were inspired by the concepts captured in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. The Declaration served as a contract between men and the state. This represented a fundamental shift. Whereas nobles and clergy had wielded unprecedented power for centuries prior, the individual rights of man were now e

The suffrage movement was the pre-cursor to the emergence of feminism. This desire to participate in representative democracy was largely a white middle class women’s struggle for equality and a larger role in the public sphere. Immigrant and African American women were largely excluded from this fight, as they were grappling with issues that reflected their experience. The right to vote was only achieved through persistence. When, in 1916, the National Woman’s Party (NWP), u

In Jo Freeman’s essay, “What the Hell is Women’s Liberation Anyway?” written in 1968, she expresses the dissatisfaction that many women were beginning to feel about the male dominance inherent in the New Left.[1] She recognized that women’s liberation is not about equality with men, but rather a complete restructuring of society into one that is just, whereby individuals can be free to explore and assume their true identities free from societal restrictions based on culture a

Throughout Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she challenges and seeks to redefine the cult of True Womanhood. As a young girl, she was cared for, nurtured and treated relatively well, but, once sold to the Flint family, she was victimized and subjected to daily abuses. Caught between the ideology of True Womanhood based on purity, piety and submissiveness, and her own sense of self and dignity inculcated during her early years, she chose to publicize her

During the early 1900’s women experienced expanded political opportunities which contributed to the image of a “New Woman” who was sexually liberated and financially independent.[1] This independence was achieved because of the growing employment opportunities for white women, in factories, and the feminization of clerical work.[2] For black and immigrant women, the doors of opportunity remained closed. They remained regulated to domestic or agricultural labor. Whatever posit