19th Amendment Essay RESOURCES

19th Amendment Essay Resources

Dr. Elizabeth Griffin, Historian and author, contends that the ratification of the 19th Amendment was neither inevitable nor easy. She argues that women created and sustained a 72 year-long, grass-roots political movement that carved out a constitutionally protected space for the exercise of female 'self-sovereignty.' Consider her remarks below from the Ken Burns documentary, Not For Ourselves Alone.

"Its viewed as remarkable that this even happened (the 19th Amendement), because we are all still legacies of that cult of true womanhood. We still think of women as not quite equal, not quite the same as. And so, this enormous movement enfranchising half the population led by women is demeaned by the society as a whole. We don't think of it as significant because women did it! Suffrage is the expansion of the franchise. Its what Jacksonian Democracy did not do. Jacksonian Democracy gets a chapter and a half in most American History books and Seneca Falls maybe gets an illustration. This is major change in America. The expansion of the franchise for women and then it lays the groundwork for how the Civil Rights movement will follow: similar kinds of agitation, similar kinds of leadership. So it is an enormously significant piece of history that both touches men and women and is affected by men and women."

RUBRIC: LINK

PROMPT: The promise of the 19th Amendment cannot be fulfilled until we have a female 
                  president. 

Historical Overview:538 - What Americans Say About Electing a Female President

                                  The Emergence of the 'Women's Sphere'

                                   Women in Politics

                                   The US is Ranked 104th in Women in Politics

                                   Brief History of Marital Rape Laws

                                    Not for Ourselves Alone - Video Clips

History of the 19th Amendment: Election Day!  Pay special attention to the role of political cartoons in articulating national fears about the impact of woman's suffrage on the American family.

DISAGREE:

                     Sorry, Hillary: Women care more about their president than his (or her) gender
                     President's gender doesn't matter

                      Jordan Peterson on Gender Equality
           
                   
AGREE:  The Real Reason American Has Never Had a Female President

                 The Case for a Female President
               
                The Glass Ceiling in Politics Needs to be Shattered

                Why are women still not running for public office?

                Why Having a Female President Matters


Background Research: The Conservative Answer to Feminism

                                      Conservative Women are Running for Office This Year Too
                             
                                      Why Women Don't Run for Office

Video: Night of Terror




Video: Not for Ourselves Alone - Ken Burns

    Part II - Winter Wheat - Begins at 2:50:02

Women's suffrage

Women win the Vote

Opposing Opinions on the Women's March




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