California’s Gender, Class, and Racial Hierarchy and What It Means for Women
Gender roles and expectations in 19th century California were somewhat different than those further east, but the white male still held firm at the top of the hierarchy. In male-dominated gold rush...
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Let Them Be Free
The basic freedom of privacy and the right to control what happens ones own body is something that most people today take for granted. Some minority groups today, including LGBT groups and women in...
View ArticleWomen’s fight for control
The fight over who controls women’s bodies and how that control is enforced is highlighted in the 19th century and early 20th century. Women are the usual victims that fall under this desire to control...
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“A woman should be free”: Rape, Birth Control, Eugenics, and Bodily...
Carrie Buck (left) with her mother Emma Buck (right) in 1924 On January 23, 1924, a seventeen year-old girl from Charlottesville, Virginia named Carrie Buck was committed to the Virginia Colony for...
View ArticleA Woman’s Fight
At the turn of the century, the effects of a post-Civil War era began to settle in for women across America. Sex as a private act only thought of and spoken about within the confinements of a person’s...
View ArticleSanger Isn’t Allowed Here: Asserting Male Control in a Changing World
The early 1900s faced the grappling of power between the dominant, patriarchal society and the new, limited opportunities of power granted to the historically disenfranchised parties, which caused a...
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Political sexual power struggle post Civil War
Post Civil War era brought about change and power struggle for both gender and races. The white man of the south struggled with the loss of his driving economic force and his dominance of power over...
View ArticlePower Struggles of the Early Twentieth Century
The struggle for power impacted sexual norms in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. In the south, white men exercised power over black men and women, and white women. They used lynching to control black...
View ArticleLack of Bodily Discretion
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States endured several groundbreaking societal developments concerning women and race. Abortion rates increased dramatically...
View ArticleControl is Vital in the 19th and 20th Century
The post-Civil War era in America was a time of struggle where the white male majority took to extreme measures to retain control and preserve their dominance while the minority populations of African...
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