19th Century

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19th Century
Elaborate Pornography
Franz von Bayros
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The 19th Century-1848

• The first women's rights convention in the United
  States is held in Seneca Falls, New York. Many
  participants sign a "Declaration of Sentiments
  and Resolutions" that outlines the main issues
  and goals for the emerging women's movement.
  Thereafter, women's rights meetings are held on a
  regular basis.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In the Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
suggests that humans are animals and like other
animals have a natural history.
Darwin proposes two processes important in
evolution 1) natural selection, and 2) sexual
selection.
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19th Century

• Some of the first scientific and
• medical investigations of sex -
• Freud Ellis

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Some developments in the 20th century United
States---

• 1920 - 19th Amendment passed
• Women in the US allowed
• to vote
• 1952 - first Presidential election where
  women vote in equal proportions to men
• 1960s -The Pill available in US

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Also in the 1960s

• 1964 - Civil Rights Act outlaws
• employment discrimination
• based upon sex
• 1965 -In Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme
  invalidates state laws
• prohibiting physicians from providing
  contraception advice
• -upholds right to privacy

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1973

• In Roe v. Wade Supreme
• Court rules that right to
• privacy includes abortion
• decision

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The 1990s - Women vs. men in employment

• Women were-
• horizontally segregated
• 98.5 of secretaries
• 71.8 of non-univ. teachers
• 84.5 of nurses
• 1.2 of construction workers
• 27.2 of physicians
• ---were women

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The 1990s - Women vs. men in employment

• Women were-
• vertically stratified
• 3-4 of major corporation.
• directors were women
• underpaid
• women earned 72 of what men
• earned in the same jobs

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The 1990s - States with Sodomy Laws

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Kansas
• Louisiana

• Maryland Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• North Carolina

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The 1990s - States with Sodomy Laws

• Oklahoma
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia

• Restriction applies to same-gender sex only.

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