Intersectionality: A Feminist History

Presenter: Tessa Bradley

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 19-20

Semester: Spring

Department: Native American Studies

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

Screenshot URL: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1bdfPNHgBzdWMLNcpk8_cxt4D6dpGbiCI

Abstract:
 

This poster is meant to be a visual representation of the waves in the feminist movement. Starting with the Native American ideals that influenced early feminism in western culture. This poster depicts an image of a Native American woman and early feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this is because Stanton was widely influenced by the Native women in the Iriquois tribe in New York. The Iroquois women were the agriculturalists, so they both created life and sustained life, and in council both male and female members had equal power in their voice. Stanton’s observations led to the Women’s suffrage movement, which then later on led to the feminism movement of the 1970s, depicted at the bottom of the page in the protest image. The Feminist movement of the 70s made great strides in rights for women, this era began a chapter in Women’s history. Second Wave feminism started to gain more color. A former white women’s movement was now fighting for the rights of women of color. This is depicted by the two Rosie the Riveter pictures, on the left is the classic image of Rosie and on the right is a depiction of Rosie as a Native woman, this is meant to show the shift in the feminist ideals. I chose the word intersectionality to be the focal point of the piece because this term is associated with third wave feminism, or the feminism of today. This term means to be interconnected, this is shown through the arrows weaving in and out of all the images. These details are meant to show all these events are interconnected into culminating the feminism we know today.

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