{"id":4142,"date":"2021-03-11T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2021-03-11T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:06:22","slug":"object-of-the-week-image-from-mobilizing-woman-power-by-harriot-stanton-blatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2021\/03\/object-of-the-week-image-from-mobilizing-woman-power-by-harriot-stanton-blatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Object of the Week: Image from “Mobilizing Woman Power” by Harriot Stanton Blatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Image from:\u00a0\u00a0 Harriot Stanton Blatch
\nMobilizing Woman Power.
\n<\/em>New York:\u00a0 The Womans (sic) Press, 1918.<\/p>\n

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CELEBRATING WOMEN\u2019S HISTORY MONTH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 1995, successive Presidents of the United States have issued annual proclamations to honor women each March for Women\u2019s History Month<\/em>.[1]<\/a>\u00a0 What had begun in 1978 as a local celebration with students in Santa Rosa, California has become a national acknowledgment of the roles, accomplishments and contributions of women in society.[2]<\/a>\u00a0 The foundation of these celebrations is rooted in International Women\u2019s Day <\/em>which has been observed annually on March 8 since the turn of the 20th<\/sup> century.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme for Women\u2019s History Month<\/em> is \u201cValiant Women of the Vote: \"Title<\/a>Refusing to be Silenced\u201d in recognition of the centennial anniversary of the Suffrage Movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment which guarantees and protects women’s constitutional right to vote.\u00a0 On this occasion, women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the United States work to ensure this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated nationally.[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch played a pivotal role in the fight for women\u2019s voting rights.\u00a0\"Page<\/a> The daughter of famous suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Henry B. Stanton, an abolitionist, politician and journalist,\u00a0Blatch was uniquely positioned to champion the cause.[5]<\/a> \u00a0 Though Blatch dedicated herself to women\u2019s suffrage, she was also concerned with broader related issues of women\u2019s economic power, independence and enfranchisement.[6]<\/a>\u00a0 She wrote many books articulating her thoughts on the suffrage movement and the implications of free women in society. Some of the images in this blog post are from her book \u201cMobilizing Woman Power\u201d published in 1918.\u00a0 The book emphasizes women\u2019s contributions to World War I, which ended the year Blatch\u2019s book was published.\u00a0 The volume focuses on women\u2019s sacrifice for the war effort as well as their disenfranchisement.[7]<\/a>\u00a0 That same year in the United Kingdom, where Blatch had lived for 20 years previously, women were granted the right to vote in Parliamentary Elections.[8]<\/a> \u00a0Labor strikes and movements made news around the world, and the Bolshevik Revolution spurred further momentum for women\u2019s and labor rights.<\/p>\n

These global events did not go unnoticed in the United States.\u00a0 With more women in the work force due to industrialization and the war effort, Blatch\u2019s ideas gained traction with the larger public.\u00a0 In another interesting note about her book, the foreword was written by Theodore Roosevelt, a strong ally and visible partner for women\u2019s rights since 1912.\u00a0 In the New York State Assembly, the trail-blazing Roosevelt introduced a bill to punish perpetrators of domestic violence against women and appointed women to executive positions in the government.[9]<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a>
Harriot Stanton Blatch addressing Union Square suffrage meeting, photomechanical print
Library of Congress, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division (26,530)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/a>Blatch also contributed a 100-page chapter to the book \u201cHistory of Women\u2019s Suffrage\u201d on the subject of Lucy Stone\u2019s American Woman Suffrage Association<\/em>[10]<\/a>.\u00a0 The organization was considered a rival to the National Woman Suffrage Association, <\/em>founded by her mother and social reformer, Susan B. Anthony[11]<\/a>. The volume was produced collectively by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper.[12]<\/a> Published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922, it is a history of the women’s suffrage movement, primarily in the United States.<\/p>\n

\"Blatch<\/a>
Harriot Stanton Blatch speaking to large crowd of men, Wall Street, New York City.
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
https:\/\/loc.getarchive.net\/media\/in-the-days-of-old-dobbin-and-derby-hats-mrs-harriot-stanton-blatch-exhorted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The outspoken Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was affiliated with both the Women\u2019s Trade Union League and her mother\u2019s National American Woman Suffrage Association. In 1907, she founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women. Under her leadership the league enrolled thousands of working women who had never considered themselves political or rebellious.\u00a0 The burgeoning suffrage movement resulted in large, open-air meetings at which Blatch orated on the cause.\u00a0 On May 21, 1910, a mass parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City publicized the campaign, the first of many such public demonstrations which brought more visibility and support to the cause of women\u2019s rights.[13]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0In her later years Blatch worked tirelessly for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), first drafted in 1923 by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman and introduced in Congress in December 1923.\u00a0 Still not ratified into law, The ERA is a proposed amendment<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0United States Constitution<\/a>\u00a0designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in matters of divorce, property,\u00a0employment<\/a>, and other matters.[14]<\/a> \u00a0Blatch, who lived until November 20, 1940 would not see the passage of this amendment which has yet to be ratified over 80 years after her death.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.womenshistory.org\/womens-history\/womens-history-month<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/womens-history-month-how-it-started-and-how-to-celebrate-161258<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/Activity\/15586\/The-history-of-IWD<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.2020centennial.org\/<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Harriot-Eaton-Stanton-Blatch<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Harriot-Stanton-Blatch-Winning-Suffrage\/dp\/0300080689<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/18012004\/<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/gnmeducationcentre\/2018\/feb\/05\/womens-suffrage-february-1918-first-women-gain-right-to-vote-in-parliamentary-elections<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/tr-gable\/<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Harriot-Eaton-Stanton-Blatch<\/a>, accessed 3\/2\/2021.<\/p>\n

[11]<\/a> http:\/\/www.crusadeforthevote.org\/nwsa-organize<\/a>, accessed 3\/3\/2021.<\/p>\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Woman_Suffrage<\/a>, accessed 3\/3\/2021.<\/p>\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Harriot-Eaton-Stanton-Blatch<\/a>, accessed 3\/3\/2021.<\/p>\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equal_Rights_Amendment<\/a>, accessed 3\/3\/2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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