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| Amelie Sieveking (1794-1859) |
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Nursing pioneer who founded the female Association for the Care of the Poor and the Sick in Hamburg Germany.
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| Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) |
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| English nurse, writer, and statisticain who became prominent for her work during the Crimean War. She was known as "The Lady with the Lamp".She laid the foundation for professional nursing with nursing principles summerized in the book "Notes on Nursing". LA |
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| Clara Harlowe Barton (121-1910) |
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American teacher, nurse, and humaniarian.She established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to wounded soldiers during the American Civil War but is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.
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| Women's Social Political Union (1903) |
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Founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia. The union enrolled mostly middle and upper class women. It emhasized the value of the media and used political stunts such as pelting government officias with eggs, chaining themselves to lampposts, and smashing windows in department stores in order to draw attention to its demands. They were labeled sufferagettes by male politicians.
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| Bertha Von Suttner (1843-1914) |
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The head of the Austrian Peace Society, she protested againts the growing arms race of the 1890's.Her novel, "Lay Down Your Arms" brought her the nobel peace prize in 1905.
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Renounced traditional female roles. A few supported socialism but most sought new freedom outside the household and new roles other than those of wives and mothers.
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Attended medical school at the University of Rome and was the first Italian woman to recieve a medical degree. She characterized "The New Woman" as one who followed a rational scientific perspective. She established a new system of teaching which developed children more fully and set free their personalities by using natural and spontaneous activities in which students learned at their own rate.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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| "First feminist", Mary gained much respect through her essay called A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Where she attempted to encourage woman to gain strength in mind and body, and that softness was merely weakness. |
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| Catherine the Great (1762-1796) |
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| Gained power in Russia to become Catherine II. She was characterised by her modernism and dominance. Many historians have critisized and attacked Catherine after her death for her supposid love affairs and downplay many of her achievements. |
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Valenciennes Lace Industry
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| When Napoleon stopped the import of English textiles while the French textile industry was suffering, the Valenciennes lace industry was revived. To stimulate the economy he then forbid women to wear the same dress to court twice, making them buy more fabric. |
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Marie Antoinette 1774-1793
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| Queen of France from 1774-1793, Marie Antoinette is popularly remembered for her famous quote, "Let them eat cake." She supported the monarchy and fought against reform during the French Revolution. She was finally executed using the guillotine in 1793. |
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| With its invention in 1876, jobs for women finally become available. Due to the progress in machinery during the Industrial Revolution women lost their jobs in manufacturing so the Telephone Exchange became a place that provided many women with jobs during the Second Industrial Revolution. |
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| Thousands of women storm the palace of Versailles demanding bread. Carrying broomsticks, lances, pitchorks, swords and pistols the women begged for bread for their children who were starving. On October 6th, Louis XVI conceded. |
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| Marie Gouze(Olympe de Gouges) |
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| After the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was published Marie created her own Declaration of the Rights of Woman in 1791. |
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