Gendering the Nation Online Museum Exhibit

We will be discussing how political regulation is influenced by gender roles. We will be talking about westernized countries, specifically Britain, The Unites States and Canada, spanning from the mid 18th century to the 1970’s. First we will be discussing how gender affects the raising of children and how enlightenment thinkers talked about children’s education based on gender. Then we will be talking about the suffrage movement in Britain and specifically how men supported the movement and the reasons why they supported this movement. The next section is focused on gendered laws in U.S. history, specifically looking at the development of U.S. women’s legal status since 1870. Finally we will be discussing How an American woman who did not hold political power revolutionized birth control and freed women from their own bodies. How Nationalism is affected by gender. Finally we explore the way feminists were crucial to the eugenics movement. Through motherhood and maintaining high positions in society. How nationalism related to the social order and a discussion of the biological and social differences between genders. An analysis of how nationalism and the political climate of a time affect gender performance.