Women in World History

Part
One
of the Essay is titled ?Talk Back to Aristotle.? In this part of the essay you
are asked to describe the views held by Aristotle and other men such as
Demosthenes, Hipponax and Hyperides that attempt to prove women?s inferiority
at all levels. You are then asked to challenge the misogynist
views of these men by describing other women we have studied such as the
?badass? goddesses and the women and goddesses in The Epic of Gilgamesh. Your goal here is to create a
counter-narrative to the image of women promulgated by Aristotle and other
philosophers.u can also use the writings of Gerda Lerner on patriarchy
and the story of the Rape Lucretia in
their essay.

Part Two of the essay requires you to choose women from the First and Second wave of the feminist movement whom you admire most and whom you believe contributed the most to the women?s movement. You must identify three women from the first wave, i.e., the right to vote movement, and three from the second wave of feminist action.

You can use only the Modern History Sourcebook (on-line), To access texts in the Modern History Sourcebook for the First Wave of Feminism, do the following: Once you are on the Sourcebook, click on Liberalism and scroll down and click on Feminism

the documents attached and The Essential Feminist Reader by Estelle B. Friedman

When
quoting from the philosophers or other sources, give the name of the
philosopher followed by the quote in parentheses. For example, Aristotle said, ?Women are defective by nature.?