Word: forstered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FORSTER TURNS NEXT to Elizabeth Blackwell, the world's first trained, registered women doctor, Black well gave up any ideas of marriage or motherhood in order to pursue her aim of being a doctor--and she insisted on undergoing the same training and receiving the same certification as her male colleagues. Without this, Blackwell realized that women could never gain true equality in the professions--differences in training or background would always be singled out as inferiorities...
...shown as that although it is now legally possible for women to become doctors, other obstacles still stand in the way. Medical training requires a time commitment that is extremely difficult to combine with marriage and motherhood--but women are still reluctant to postpone child-bearing. In fact, Forster criticizes female doctors for having successfully assimilated themselves into the ranks of male doctors without making a serious collective effort to reform the profession...
...Forster turns next to the wanted suffrage, movement and the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Deciding to campaign for the right to vote represented a new stage in feminism--it meant a radical alteration in the legal status of women Forster says that the suffragettes had hoped for too much at the outset--they had hoped that women voting would make the world a better place and in particular improve their own position. Today, women represent only a small proportion of the elected government representatives in the Western world Either women are simply rejecting one of their options of there...
Women, of course, did not always want to be faced with the new choices which Sanger's activities created. And Forster says that winning the vote produced complaceney. The feminist movement then needed an ideology to propel it Forster credits Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian immigrant to the United States who was active in the anarchist movement with providing this ideology According to Goldman real emancipition begins in the soul after all the outer traps have been removed, internal tyrannies still keep women in subjection...
...quest for this "emancipaton of the soul" which pushes women to confront the same questions they always have Forster's book has pointed out clearly what those questions are and highlighted some of the difficult choices that women today must make The struggles of the women she portrays have increased the choices available to modern women and have made her circumstances much easter to bear, but they have not necessarily made the choosing any order...