Response to Lucas's Blog

I really like that you chose to focus on women for your blog post this week, I found it very interesting! I think it meant a great deal that the rebels included women in their fighting and gathering of supplies. I have to disagree with you though on your point saying feminism in the US was merely non-existent in the early 20th century. Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were women of the late 1800's. They were the founders of the women's suffrage movement here in the United States. And the Seneca Falls Convention which is now viewed as the start of the feminist movement in the U.S, took place in 1848. In 1861 the Civil War erupted, pushing women's rights aside for a time. But once the war was over, women pushed even harder for equal rights. In 1920 women gained the right to vote in all parts the United States. This did not happen in Mexico until 1947, twenty seven years after the United States. So in my opinion, the U.S. was more open to feminism than Latin America in the early 20th century.