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This page should be renamed "History of white women in the United States."
I'm joking, of course, but I write that as a challenge to future editors of this article. The current version of the article uses the term "women" when what is usually meant is "white women." -- Kevin Myers 15:17, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
As the movement broadened to include many women like Susan B. Anthony from the temperance movement, the slavery metaphor was joined by the image of the drunkard husband who batters his wife. Feminist prejudice that women were morally superior to men reflected the social attitudes of the day.
??
I've listed this article as POV, not to suggest ill will on the part of anyone involved, but to draw attention to the fact this article is severely slanted toward white women. The white feminist movement grew almost entirely out of the black feminist movement and yet they are currently absent from any mention here. Sarge Baldy 09:38, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
This article is confusing and unorganized. It is also lacking a lot of information on feminist history in the United States. For example, the article contains an image of Rosie the Riveter, but lacks any information on the substantial change to the role of women during WWII.
I just changed the article to say the the Declaration of Independence was androcentric in saying "all men are created equal," because this did not, as the article previously said, limit women's rights in any way. The D of I was not a set of laws, and all men are created equal is merely descriptive (wrong or not). I'm also unsure that we're being quite fair to the Founding Fathers, who likely considered "men" to be gender neutral. While there are plenty of problems with using "men" in a gender neutral fashion, if that was the intent, we should give them the benefit of the doubt, while explaining why this isn't good enough. Sound fair? NickelShoe 17:43, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
From Rosenzweig's article: "The entry on women leaves out the Nineteenth Amendment but devotes a paragraph to splits in the National Organization for Women (now) over the defense of Valerie Solanas (who shot Andy Warhol)."-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 18:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I have added the POV - Title box because I believe that this article should more rightly be called a History of Feminism in the United States, not a history of women. The pre-feminist sections contains feminist analyses of sex roles which gives "undue weight" (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view) to a feminist reading of early US history and very little actual historical content which meets the standards of the [Historical method]. The remainder is solely about feminism. I have left the other POV box because I think that if this article is retitled to match its contents (imo), the earlier POV issue will still need to be addressed. Cheers. baby_ifritah 14:53, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I removed whole paragraphs about individual American women who, in the sources given, did not have much affect on the topic, on American women in general. I have also taken out paragraphs which have to do with all forms of contraception including condoms, as this subject is not specific to women alone (unlike The Pill.) I took out the fire at Triangle Shirtwaist as it was an industrial accident which affected industrial safety in general, not women specifically. Following is each issue brought up separately. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Note that 72.78.224.46 brought the article from 44kb to 140kb in the last two months. Some of that was done by adding tangential and peripheral material about gay rights and racism, and about subjects such as the Great Depression and industrial safety which were of concern to both men and women. The article must be trimmed back! It is too large, too floppy and unfocused. Deleting peripheral material is the right direction. Binksternet ( talk) 06:01, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Fire resulted in industry safety laws applicable to men and women. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
A "noted flapper", inspiration for book characters. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Affected both men and women. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
First recipient of Social Security, could have been a man or a woman. Random. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Mildred Elizabeth Sisk and Iva Toguri d’Aquino: two women who were famous spies in WWII. Does not set or describe general trends for women. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Rosa Parks's iron determination was for her race, not her sex. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The "Little Rock Nine" were nine girls in the fight for race rights. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Griswold v Connecticut was about privacy in marriage, not about women alone. It was about contraceptives that both men and women might choose to use. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Stonewall Inn lesbian Stormé DeLarverie did not do something for her sex; the result of the action was beneficial to gays of any sex. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The sentence about the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws was not shown to have any relevance to the topic. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
In Vietnam, Jane Fonda was a war protester, not an activist for women. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Eisenstadt v Baird, about contraceptive use, was applicable to men and women. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Confused heiress goes bad. Irrelevant to women's issues. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tried to kill President Ford, as did Sara Jane Moore. Irrelevant to women's issues. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The paragraph about Anita Hill did not relate the story to women's issues in general; rather, it made the point that this was about harassment in the workplace, and strangely, about race. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I shortened the paragraph about Feminists for Life. The organization does not work for women's rights; it works against access to abortion. The bit about early feminists was inaccurate and far too brief, so I removed it, because it is not the main point of the organization. Their goal: making abortion illegal. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks to Binksternet for facilitating discussion on her/his recent removals. I will be a part of that discussion on some issues. For now, I want to note that Women's history is a subfield of history which has got some serious conceptual attention by historians. And that subfield (as described by its Wikipedia article, but confirmed elsewhere) is not just a history of the status of women, but also of the role women have played in potentially gender neutral aspects of history. To quote:
I think this may provide us with the best (or at least one relatively noncontroversial) guide to what the bounds of this article ought to be. Admittedly, there are sections of this article that seem to fail on these grounds (individual women not of historical significance for example), and many clear segments of the history of gender in the US are not yet included. However, as I will discuss soon, some of the recent deletions definitely fall within these bounds. By the way, Binksternet or others, if you have some principled objection to using this definition as guidance, please discuss it here.-- Carwil ( talk) 13:35, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hello! Please consider adding Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger to your page. According to her Wiki article, she founded the Richmond, VA chapter of NOW and also contributed to local Women's movements. Thank you. Kobuu ( talk) 20:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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What I find interesting is that any subject that focuses on the history of the United States mostly deals with the contributions made by those who are Anglo-Americans and Afro-Americans, while the contributions, in this case, made by the Hispanic, Asian and Native-American women are practically omitted. Tony the Marine ( talk) 00:55, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
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Marked statements as wrong (dubious). The forbidden items were not prohibited or banned under federal law. The Comstock law only prohibited shipment by US mail (Post Office). But there were a lot of other Comstock laws including a hodge-podge of state laws which a Judge called "haphazard and capricious", in a law review. Contraception per-SE was only banned in Connecticut. These laws were often not enforced. The situation was so confusing and complicated that I hesitate to try to explain it and nowhere can I find a good succinct explanation of it. David S. Lawyer 00:01, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
The introduction to this article needs to be rewritten. It should be a brief summary of the topic, not explanation about the available references or details encountered in the writing of the article. These ideas are more appropriate for the talk page. MLKLewis ( talk) 19:44, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
One line about Murray's work was added to the page in the 1950s section, much more could be added about her legal theories to extend constitutional protections to women in the absence of an ERA or strict scrutiny for gender discrimination. Serenewilliams ( talk) 05:50, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
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This page should be renamed "History of white women in the United States."
I'm joking, of course, but I write that as a challenge to future editors of this article. The current version of the article uses the term "women" when what is usually meant is "white women." -- Kevin Myers 15:17, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
As the movement broadened to include many women like Susan B. Anthony from the temperance movement, the slavery metaphor was joined by the image of the drunkard husband who batters his wife. Feminist prejudice that women were morally superior to men reflected the social attitudes of the day.
??
I've listed this article as POV, not to suggest ill will on the part of anyone involved, but to draw attention to the fact this article is severely slanted toward white women. The white feminist movement grew almost entirely out of the black feminist movement and yet they are currently absent from any mention here. Sarge Baldy 09:38, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
This article is confusing and unorganized. It is also lacking a lot of information on feminist history in the United States. For example, the article contains an image of Rosie the Riveter, but lacks any information on the substantial change to the role of women during WWII.
I just changed the article to say the the Declaration of Independence was androcentric in saying "all men are created equal," because this did not, as the article previously said, limit women's rights in any way. The D of I was not a set of laws, and all men are created equal is merely descriptive (wrong or not). I'm also unsure that we're being quite fair to the Founding Fathers, who likely considered "men" to be gender neutral. While there are plenty of problems with using "men" in a gender neutral fashion, if that was the intent, we should give them the benefit of the doubt, while explaining why this isn't good enough. Sound fair? NickelShoe 17:43, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
From Rosenzweig's article: "The entry on women leaves out the Nineteenth Amendment but devotes a paragraph to splits in the National Organization for Women (now) over the defense of Valerie Solanas (who shot Andy Warhol)."-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 18:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I have added the POV - Title box because I believe that this article should more rightly be called a History of Feminism in the United States, not a history of women. The pre-feminist sections contains feminist analyses of sex roles which gives "undue weight" (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view) to a feminist reading of early US history and very little actual historical content which meets the standards of the [Historical method]. The remainder is solely about feminism. I have left the other POV box because I think that if this article is retitled to match its contents (imo), the earlier POV issue will still need to be addressed. Cheers. baby_ifritah 14:53, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I removed whole paragraphs about individual American women who, in the sources given, did not have much affect on the topic, on American women in general. I have also taken out paragraphs which have to do with all forms of contraception including condoms, as this subject is not specific to women alone (unlike The Pill.) I took out the fire at Triangle Shirtwaist as it was an industrial accident which affected industrial safety in general, not women specifically. Following is each issue brought up separately. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Note that 72.78.224.46 brought the article from 44kb to 140kb in the last two months. Some of that was done by adding tangential and peripheral material about gay rights and racism, and about subjects such as the Great Depression and industrial safety which were of concern to both men and women. The article must be trimmed back! It is too large, too floppy and unfocused. Deleting peripheral material is the right direction. Binksternet ( talk) 06:01, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Fire resulted in industry safety laws applicable to men and women. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
A "noted flapper", inspiration for book characters. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Affected both men and women. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
First recipient of Social Security, could have been a man or a woman. Random. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Mildred Elizabeth Sisk and Iva Toguri d’Aquino: two women who were famous spies in WWII. Does not set or describe general trends for women. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Rosa Parks's iron determination was for her race, not her sex. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The "Little Rock Nine" were nine girls in the fight for race rights. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Griswold v Connecticut was about privacy in marriage, not about women alone. It was about contraceptives that both men and women might choose to use. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Stonewall Inn lesbian Stormé DeLarverie did not do something for her sex; the result of the action was beneficial to gays of any sex. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The sentence about the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws was not shown to have any relevance to the topic. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
In Vietnam, Jane Fonda was a war protester, not an activist for women. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Eisenstadt v Baird, about contraceptive use, was applicable to men and women. Irrelevant. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Confused heiress goes bad. Irrelevant to women's issues. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tried to kill President Ford, as did Sara Jane Moore. Irrelevant to women's issues. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The paragraph about Anita Hill did not relate the story to women's issues in general; rather, it made the point that this was about harassment in the workplace, and strangely, about race. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I shortened the paragraph about Feminists for Life. The organization does not work for women's rights; it works against access to abortion. The bit about early feminists was inaccurate and far too brief, so I removed it, because it is not the main point of the organization. Their goal: making abortion illegal. Binksternet ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks to Binksternet for facilitating discussion on her/his recent removals. I will be a part of that discussion on some issues. For now, I want to note that Women's history is a subfield of history which has got some serious conceptual attention by historians. And that subfield (as described by its Wikipedia article, but confirmed elsewhere) is not just a history of the status of women, but also of the role women have played in potentially gender neutral aspects of history. To quote:
I think this may provide us with the best (or at least one relatively noncontroversial) guide to what the bounds of this article ought to be. Admittedly, there are sections of this article that seem to fail on these grounds (individual women not of historical significance for example), and many clear segments of the history of gender in the US are not yet included. However, as I will discuss soon, some of the recent deletions definitely fall within these bounds. By the way, Binksternet or others, if you have some principled objection to using this definition as guidance, please discuss it here.-- Carwil ( talk) 13:35, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Can someone's bot kindly cover all the bare links in this article. Thanks. - AnakngAraw ( talk) 04:07, 29 June 2011 (UTC) {{ Help|A lot of barelinks. Anybody who has a bot to tidy this article's refs section. Thanks}} - AnakngAraw ( talk) 04:07, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Please consider adding Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger to your page. According to her Wiki article, she founded the Richmond, VA chapter of NOW and also contributed to local Women's movements. Thank you. Kobuu ( talk) 20:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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What I find interesting is that any subject that focuses on the history of the United States mostly deals with the contributions made by those who are Anglo-Americans and Afro-Americans, while the contributions, in this case, made by the Hispanic, Asian and Native-American women are practically omitted. Tony the Marine ( talk) 00:55, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
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The introduction to this article needs to be rewritten. It should be a brief summary of the topic, not explanation about the available references or details encountered in the writing of the article. These ideas are more appropriate for the talk page. MLKLewis ( talk) 19:44, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
One line about Murray's work was added to the page in the 1950s section, much more could be added about her legal theories to extend constitutional protections to women in the absence of an ERA or strict scrutiny for gender discrimination. Serenewilliams ( talk) 05:50, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
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