week 4 Annotated Bibliography Assignment

ANNOTATED BIOGRAPHY 4

Annotated Biography: Women’s Reproductive System in 19th Century

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Introduction

This document discusses the views of the creative solutions of women in the 19th Century and highlights their historical and current effects. As such, it gives the women's answers during the 19th Century and the civil war.

Faue, E. (2016). The community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945. UNC Press Books.

Women's Rights during the 19th Century

There were initially no Women's rights in the 19th century. Instead, Faue states that there was economic and social discrimination against women. The roles of women were distinctive from those of men. The men were considered the lawmakers and they restricted women's rights to parenthood and marriage. The roles of women were to give birth and do the house chores. The men did not want their wives to have social roles as the men felt threatened that the women would overturn their powers. Therefore, women were perceived only for reproduction purposes.

According to Faue, women's rights are those that endorse legal and social fairness between both men and females. Women empowerment happens when the women can spontaneously analyze, establish and air out their needs without them being discriminated against by the government, culture, religion, or the socio-cultural values (Faue, p.436). Women fought throughout the years to have a voice. They antagonized rape. Most of the women who got pregnant during this era had no right to get rid of these children. However, some situations prompted

the need for abortions for the rape victims. They would be forced to keep the pregnancies and give birth even without income. The single mothers were discriminated against and mistreated. Women have fought through the pursuit of having their rights that they now have. The author addresses the development of women's rights, abortion solutions and the search for equal rights for women. He concludes by saying that women are a great asset to the country.

Pillai, V., Wang, Y. C., & Maleku, A. (2016). Women, war, and reproductive health in developing countries. Social work in health care, 1-17.

Women in the Civil War

This era was a breakthrough for the women. Pillai and his colleagues state that the American women developed roles outside the house during the Civil War. The women from the south and north were recruited as nurses while others joined charitable brigades. The war ended when true womanhood was determined in America (Pillai, p.76). The women's autonomy in the family and the public increased. There were increased opportunities for the women in roles, identities, beliefs and obligations. Women were no longer viewed as sexual beings. Many reforms concerning the reproduction of women in this era emerged.

This article purposes of addressing the scientific racist in the 1920s, particularly focusing on women sexuality and reproduction. After the First World War, there were new establishments in the discourse of the nationalists (Pillai, 301). The author states that there was a new kind of racism, this time, particularly to the women. Pillai articulates that there was a relationship between the biological reproduction and racial purity. Regarding a study conducted by several medical and scientific researchers, Pillai says that women sexuality was characterized by the women's background as an important facet of the reproduction. The author argues that those ideas of the researchers came as a result of the present theories of the race from the North America and the Western Europe. Contrary to that, the argument of the contemporary political rhetoric of the right wing is likewise measurable in this context. The article similarly discovers the connection between the sexism and antisexist that appear in the studies of these researchers and concludes that the arguments were majorly based on the beliefs about sexuality and gender.

References

Faue, E. (2016). The community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945. UNC Press Books.

Pillai, V., Wang, Y. C., & Maleku, A. (2016). Women, war, and reproductive health in developing countries. Social work in health care, 1-17.