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Tell why black, poor, and working class woemn were excluded from the movement.

2006-06-15 04:43:24 · 3 answers · asked by big_mike92000 1 in Social Science Sociology

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That was still a very volatile time in American culture - just coming off the civil rights days. Then and now exists a caste system in America - that is based on many factors: race, education, social status and religion. And socially, the American system is built on the principle that Caucasian women are the "top" of the mountain. In turn, many of them felt and still feel a sense of entitlement (event the feminists). There may have still been some subconscious residual negativity toward black women because of the whole "master sneaking in the slave quarters" deal. Obviously - that issue is still not resolved because women (white and black) don't open the discussion on that even today. The feminist movement never even addressed those oppression issues. So the feminist movement was "their" own thing...and the civil rights movement was for "black women". Also most African Americans are still pretty religiously conservative about things like abortion, contraception and burning your bra (especially in public). Some things are changing, but not fast enough. Black women are coming into their own and for the first time seen as the smart, productive, creative individuals that they really are. Oprah is proving that. Until all women are on equal footing - the movement cannot be totally successful.

2006-06-15 05:10:33 · answer #1 · answered by NONE 2 · 0 0

They weren't excluded. The law which have been changed affect them just the same as they affect any other woman in America. If a person believes they were excluded then that becomes their reality. It is their personal truth, even if it is not based on any real facts. The laws are applied to all women. Black women were granted the vote at the same time white women were or any other woman. The law did not exclude black women, nor did it only include white women. The laws which enabled women to own property, enter into contracts, have the ability to abtain a divorce, have an expectation of privacy in relation to abortion, and all the other laws in which women were granted rights which up until law changed had been denied them affected and applied to all women including black women.

Those who experiance a differing reality experiance it due to how employers apply the laws. All woman get paid less for equal work than men get paid. All women experiance sexual descrimination at some point, if only once. The laws did not exclude black women, black women were no more oppressed than white women. All women experiance difficulty getting promotions, abtaining good paying jobs, and other items women face on a daily basis.

If a person decides their reality is different than what is true reality, then for them that is their "truth". They are oppressing themselves by thinking this way. They are allowing negitive mental feedback to hold them back. This creates a situation where they decide to become bitter, angry, victems, which becomes a self fullfilling phophecy, as this attitude is reflected on the outside and it effects performance. Nobody wants to be around somebody who is constantly angry, constantly bitter, constantly complaining. We all, as women are oppressed. While we have made great headway we still have a ways to go. Black women, white women, hispanic women, french women, german women, oriental women, we all are in the exact same boat. We need to stick together. If we banded together as they did when first working towards changing the laws, we would be a powerful force to be reckoned with. We could make even more changes. however, we are too busy pointing fingers at others, deciding somebody has more than we, that we are bieng treated unfairly, that the grass is greener over in the other yard, and this is exactly how men wish to keep us, seperated. Seperated we can not band together and make sure our rights are protected and not diregarded at the work force and in other situations.

Lets stop this bickering over how has what and who is being left behind, lets put the anger behind us, band together in a common cause and make some more changes which are for all societies good. Thanks for this question.

2006-06-15 05:33:25 · answer #2 · answered by Serenity 7 · 0 2

ok, let's get your myths out of how. maximum U.S. females ought to no longer vote until eventually 1920. there have been some states that allowed females to vote many years in the previous than this, yet no longer many. Secondly, adult men were allowed to conquer and rape their better halves in although days. there replaced into no protection for a females from her husband once she replaced into married. If he beat her and raped her, the law enforcement officials does no longer come. It replaced into his "proper" to succeed in this. finally, it really is incomprehensible that because you do not imagine domicile initiatives is ugly (probable because you've never performed it), you imagine it would were alright to emphasize females into it. it would not remember how "reliable" you imagine women had it (cooking, cleansing, elevating little ones at the same time as pregnant, laundry, gardening), giving someone NO selection as to a thanks to stay their existence is slavery. No exceptions. you're viewing heritage by misogynistic rose-colored glasses. Edit: definite, yet adult men were allowed to vote. personal sources. choose their professions. Get knowledgeable. no longer marry in the adventure that they chosen (being a bachelor did no longer have detrimental connotations). They were no longer beaten and raped by ability of their better halves with impunity. They were no longer predicted to carry on their paintings at the same time as always pregnant and breastfeeding. earlier to 1920, females had taxation with out representation, which replaced into what the U.S. replaced into formed to abolish (for white adult men, besides).

2016-10-14 04:43:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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