{"id":46572,"date":"2020-08-13T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=44474"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:03:36","slug":"pardee-students-publish-op-ed-on-womens-suffrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2020\/08\/13\/pardee-students-publish-op-ed-on-womens-suffrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Students Publish Op-Ed on Women’s Suffrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three students from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University – Aarthi Gopalan (’23), Sydney Pickering (’22), and Charles J. Ray (’21) – published an op-ed in BU Today<\/em><\/a> on the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the 19th<\/sup> amendment and the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n

The op-ed, titled \u201cPOV: What the Battle for Women\u2019s Suffrage Tells Us about #MeToo 100 Years Later<\/a>,\u201d discusses the inclusionary and exclusionary characteristics of the early 20th century women\u2019s suffrage movement to shed light on the present-day #MeToo movement. While last century’s women’s suffrage movement was notorious for actively excluding native, Black, and Asian-American women, the authors argue that #MeToo must revolutionize the feminism of the suffragettes into an all-encompassing movement.<\/p>\n

An excerpt:<\/p>\n

The #MeToo movement is not feminist if it is not intersectional. Acknowledging that modern American rape culture is a derivative of heteropatriarchy and white supremacy is a first step towards inclusive, profound change. The suffragettes, through their persistence, were successful for white women. #MeToo should be similarly tenacious in mobilizing for nonwhite assault survivors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full op-ed can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This op-ed was produced as part of a team assignment in IR539<\/a>, \u201cHistory, Policy and Statecraft,\u201d during Summer I 2020 taught by Profesor Jayita Sarkar<\/a>. The course teaches students to analyze the present in light of the past, and write short analytical pieces to promote public awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How has the women’s suffrage movement influenced #MeToo, and how can today’s movement learn from the mistakes of the past?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410,8416],"tags":[11480,9099,10880,8936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47361,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46572\/revisions\/47361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}