The Empire Club Strikes Back

A key flaw in the standard, culturalist interpretation is that prohibitionism was a “whitelash” of conservative, rural, nativists “disciplining” of immigrants and blacks. The reality of 1840s New York was completely different: not only were Irish immigrants more likely to be temperate than their nativist, American counterparts (Chapter 5), but the focus of temperance activism—the money-making liquor traffic—was actually in the hands of established white nativists like “Captain” Isaiah Rynders, “Boss” Tweed, and the corrupt Tammany Hall machine. In upstate New York, temperance-abolitionist-suffragist reformers--including Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, and Susan B. Anthony--began a movement for women’s equality born of their temperance activism. Concurrent with the 1853 World’s Fair in New York, Rynders and his Know-Nothings clashed, physically, with the equal-rights reformers from upstate, whose temperance threatened the financial foundations of the Tammany Hall political machine.

The Woman's Tribune

The Woman's Tribune is a database that provides full-text access (both in digitized and text formats) to the biweekly newspaper of the same name published between 1883-1909. It contains the full run of all 724 issues of this title, which was the second-longest-running women's suffrage newspaper in the United States. It was highly regarded by suffrage movement leaders and Elizabeth Cady Stanton contributed frequently to this publication. This newspaper was intended for general circulation and reached a wide audience as its founder, Clara Bewick Colby, included a variety of topics relevant and important to women especially individuals living in the rural Midwest and West. Content found in this resource includes advertisements, book reviews, domestic new stories, editorials, poetry, recipes, and international coverage of suffragist issues. This resource would support the research needs of faculty, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students.

Media Portrayals of the Woman Suffrage Movement

Contributor Tina Olsin Lent investigates representations of the women in four recent filmic representations of this movement: Ruth Pollak’s 1995 episode of PBS’s American Experience, One Woman, One Vote, Ken Burns’s 1999 documentary, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Katja von Garnier’s 2004 HBO feature, Iron Jawed Angels, and Sarah Gavron’s 2015 feature film, Suffragette. Lent relates the new pattern of films to a number of cultural shifts that arise by the mid-1990s. Women assume more prominent positions within the film industry. Stories centered on women begin to find their way into films circulated in wide-release. Women also become more active in politics. And, notable anniversaries of various woman’s suffrage movements around the world begin to occur. Lent pays particular attention to the ways in which the histories found in the above four films bend to fit the narrative and political priorities surrounding each production.

Movimiento feminista, historia y conquista de los derechos humanos de las mujeres: una breve mirada a la normativa jurídica costarricense

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo describir el impacto que ha tenido el movimiento feminista a través de la historia y la reivindicación de los derechos humanos hacia las mujeres. Además, se realiza un breve recorrido por los momentos más transcendentales que ha tenido dicho movimiento, con sus principales figuras como Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucrecia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Simone de Beauvoir y Betty Friedan, y su estrecha relación con el movimiento sufragista internacional, el cual tuvo un gran efecto en Costa Rica, con la fundación de la Liga Feminista y la representación de sus lideresas, Ángela Acuña Braun y Ana Rosa Chacón, entre otras. Posteriormente, se describen tanto a nivel de Derecho Internacional Público como Derecho Internacional Privado, los principales mecanismos de protección de derechos humanos hacia la mujer, los cuales buscan la promoción e igualdad de género. Finalmente, se presentan algunas reflexiones sobre la importancia en la historia del movimiento feminista y de su impacto tan significativo para la sociedad en general.

A Simple Justice

When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly discovered that the unalienable rights it promised were not truly for all. The Nineteenth Amendment eventually gave women the right to vote in 1920, but the change was not welcomed by people of all genders in politically and religiously conservative Kentucky. As a result, the suffrage movement in the Commonwealth involved a tangled web of stakeholders, entrenched interest groups, unyielding constitutional barriers, and activists with competing strategies. In A Simple Justice, Melanie Beals Goan offers a new and deeper understanding of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky by following the people who labored long and hard to see the battle won. Women's suffrage was not simply a question of whether women could and should vote; it carried more serious implications for white supremacy and for the balance of federal and state powers -- especially in a border state. Shocking racial hostility surfaced even as activists attempted to make America more equitable. Goan looks beyond iconic women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to reveal figures whose names have been lost to history. Laura Clay and Madeline McDowell Breckinridge led the Kentucky movement, but they did not do it alone. This timely study introduces readers to individuals across the Bluegrass State who did their part to move the nation closer to achieving its founding ideals.

Las mujeres críticas con las positivaciones históricas de los derechos humanos: una experiencia en la asignatura de Filosofía del Derecho bajo las circunstancias del COVID-19

Este trabajo presenta una experiencia docente desarrollada en la asignatura de Filosofía del Derecho, con el objetivo principal de dar visibilidad a las siguientes mujeres, que se mostraron críticas con las positivaciones históricas de los derechos humanos: Olimpia de Gouges, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott y Mary Wollstonecraft. La implementación se ha llevado a cabo durante el confinamiento obligado por el COVID-19, con una metodología basada en la docencia online y desarrollada a partir de las herramientas disponibles en el aula virtual de la asignatura. La experiencia parte de la teoría dedicada a la positivación histórica de los derechos humanos, y presenta varias actividades con las que el alumnado ha trabajado sobre las autoras y sus obras, ha considerado sus reivindicaciones sobre la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres, y ha tomado conciencia de que la consecución de la igualdad sigue siendo un reto en nuestros días. El trabajo informa también del sistema de evaluación (tanto en la parte práctica como en la teórica) y de los resultados obtenidos con la experiencia, según la opinión del alumnado. Finalmente, se presentan las conclusiones derivadas del desarrollo precedente.