Clark-Binder, Miranda

Wllever-Farr, Heather, PhD, MA

English

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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons Explorer Café Explorer Connection 3-3-2021 Earned Not Endowed: What Do La Salle Collections Teach Us About Early Feminism and the Suffrage Movement? Miranda Clark-Binder Heather Wllever-Farr PhD, MA Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/explorercafe Miranda Clark-Binder & Heather Willever-FarrExplorer Café, March 3, 2021▪ Suffrage chronology▪ Women’s Club Movement▪ The Civic Club of Philadelphia▪ Intersections with La Salle’s Art Collections▪ Racial and socio-economic makeup of the Civic Club▪ Discussion (Padlet!) Sara Yorke Stevenson papers1848 1866 1870 1878 1890 1896 1920Seneca Falls Convention  1st women's rights convention Suffragists petition Congress to end disenfranchisement based on genderSuffrage Chronology (US) Fifteenth AmendmentRatifiedWomen’s Suffrage Amendment proposedNational American Woman Suffrage Association formedGeneral Federation of Women's Clubs formed Wyoming 1st state to allow women to voteNational Association of Colored Women formed1851Sojourner Truth delivered her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech19th Amendment ratifiedWomen’s clubs campaigned for:▪ End to lynching▪ Promoting art and music Food, sanitation, housing regulations▪ Health clinics▪ Food and milk pantries▪ Child labor laws▪ Settlement homes▪ Public libraries▪ Kindergartens and nursery schools▪ School lunch programs▪ Pay equity for female teachers▪ Parks and playgrounds▪ Conservation and environmental regulations▪ TemperancePortrait of Colonel Leslie Buswell, https://artcollection.lasalle.edu/objects-1/info/2685Young Man with an Urn, https://artcollection.lasalle.edu/objects-1/info/3112Great Women of the Bible, "The Raising of Dorcas by Saint Peter", sketch, https://artcollection.lasalle.edu/objects-1/info/2348Great Women of the Bible, "The Raising of Dorcas by Saint Peter", final sketch, https://artcollection.lasalle.edu/objects-1/info/2402The Bridge of Ronda (Spain), https://artcollection.lasalle.edu/objects-1/info/2025Standing Nude Woman, https://artcollection.lasalle.edu/objects-1/info/2691Recessional (Procession in an Italian Church), https://artcollection.lasalle.edu/objects-1/info/1531To find out more about Violet Oakley in Philadelphia• Violet Oakley murals at the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown: https://www.fpcgermantown.org/about/our-building/violet-oakley-murals/• Violet Oakley and Edith Emerson: https://rosenbach.org/blog/violet-oakley-and-edith-emerson-painters-partners-and-paragons-of-art-education/• Woodmere Exhibition about Violet Oakley: https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/exhibitions/a-grand-vision-violet-oakley-and-the-american-renaissance• Violet Oakley murals at the PA state capitol building: http://cpc.state.pa.us/history/artists/violet-oakley.cfm• Violet Oakley studio in Chestnut Hill: https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/wom/2008/violetoakleystudio.htmCivic Club MembershipDiscussion Question #1Women’s clubs often couched their work in terms of improving the lives of women and children—they were utilizing their ‘domestic’ knowledge to solve public problems. Would you label these women feminists? Why or why not?Question #2Civic Club leaders were mostly white and affluent. Disadvantaged community members appeared to play a limited role in shaping the work of the Club. How might the biases of the Club's leadership have influenced the Club’s work in addressing the challenges Philadelphia faced? How effective are community solutions when not all impacted groups have a seat at the table? 

Earned Not Endowed: What Do La Salle Collections Teach Us About Early Feminism and the Suffrage Movement?

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