We’re looking at Second Wave Feminism and American women’s surge of activism that fomented in the 1950s and exploded in the 1960s-1970s. This phenomenon follows a long tradition of women’s activism and reform in the U.S. One theme that remains the same about women’s history then and now is women’s ability to connect through their voluntary organizations: religious, charitable or political organizations. The Women’s March on Washington (and around the world) in January 2016 and the more recent #MeToo movement are certainly testament to women’s ability to speak out and organize.
As we saw, in the 19th and early part of the 20th century, this was often the only way American women could publicly express themselves—by building strength in numbers and letting their needs be shown through marches, demonstrations, petitions, and endless organizing and agitation. American women could do this: First Amendment rights have allowed women–even when they couldn’t vote or had no official political voice–to make their demands heard, even at great bodily harm, as we saw when we looked at the “Night of Terror” during the suffrage campaign.
In recent decades, this kind of activism and reform has spread worldwide. We see women in developing countries who are risking their lives to advance women’s causes; in Africa and Asia, women are agitating for reform in education, health, economic opportunity, reproductive rights—the same issues American women have been vocalizing and fighting for 200 years.
In developing countries and emerging democracies of the former Soviet Union, we see, for example, organizations called non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are voluntary organizations started to help ordinary women in those countries improve their communities and lives in the same ways American women have been doing through their own organizations for generations. NGOs are becoming a powerful force in these countries.
For this assignment I’d like you to find a web site about a woman’s organization in a country outside of the United States. Your essay should address the following points and be 400-450 words.
1. Post the web site and make sure it links so we all can see it.
2. Write a full descriptive summary of the activities described in the web site. Try to ascertain who started the organization and what its goals are. Can you tell if it is achieving its goals?
3. Compare this organization to something similar that we’ve studied about American women’s voluntary organizations, perhaps in reproductive rights, voting rights, civic reform, public health—any of the issues that American women have addressed through their voluntary organizations.
4. Has the government in that country resisted or tried to shut down the organization?
Five criteria has established for evaluating web sites. Generally, in historical research, we use web sites from educational, governmental or historical organizations, whose Internet address end in gov, edu or org. Commercial sites (com) are usually not reliable sources of historical information, as they may be biased. The only exceptions are, for example, reliable news sources, such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, CNN–or other unbiased (as unbiased as reporters can be these days) sources of news or feature stories.
Theses are the criteria for Internet sources. Be sure to address each of the following criteria in your essay:
1. Authority. Is the authority in this material clear and legitimate? Is the writer qualified? How do you know?
2. Accuracy. Can the factual information be verified by legitimate authority? Can one opinion be verified against another?
Objectivity. Is the material objective and free from advertising, bias, hidden agendas? Is the language impartial? Is the statistical evidence credible?
Timeliness. Is the material updated frequently to ensure currency? Does the material reflect the most up-to-date research?
Coverage. Is the material complete, partial, or out of context? If the material is out of context, is there a path to find the sources? If the material is out of copyright, has it been updated to make it more current?
Please use parenthese instead of footnotes for Chicargo style citation.
Please use the following references:
(1)https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/kAIiX5aygsD1IQ
(2) Please see attachment
(3) Please you any other credible source as listed and meet in the above criteria