Women's Lib as a Ressentiment Movement
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The women's liberation movement is a ressentiment movement, following the definition of ressentiment offered by Nietzsche and analyzed by Scheler. The word ressentiment translates as "resentment," and within it is subsumed the concept of power relations in a social setting, with one group having ascendancy over another, producing a long-term feeling of resentment that builds until it is expressed through revolutionary change. Nietzsche in his Genealogy of Morals analyzes the history of moral structures and indicates that this history presents a series of conflicts between two different moral attitudes. He identifies the one as the attitude of Rome, the attitude of power and of those who have power, and the other as the attitude of Judea, the attitude of the downtrodden, the attitude of the masses. The masses do not have political power, but they are able to impose their morality universally, as it did in the West against the power of Rome through Christianity. This has set up a structure lasting for centuries, a structure in which there is an ongoing struggle between the opposing forces of good and evil, symbolized by the struggle of Rome against Judea. The morality imposed by the masses is generated by and infused with ressentiment. Over time, the morality of the masses has overcome the evil of Rome and has gained ascendancy, a position it holds today and has for some time ((Nietzsche 52-53). Scheler discusses some of the ways in which the normal precepts of the pr
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, and this group involved itself in a number of issues such as divorce and the organization of working women. Lucy Stone founded the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870, a more conservative organization which came to believe in white supremacy. In 1869 Wyoming Territory became the first government in the world to grant women the vote. and this was primarily because women had played such an active and public role in its settlement. A law was also passed that allowed woman to own property and that gave equal pay to male and female teachers. Women in Colorado and Idaho were also enfranchised before the end of the century, while the battle continued for women in the rest of the states into this century (Bartley and Loxton 42).
Women also made strides in gaining an education. The growth of the women's movement brought about the creation of several women's colleges in the East and the admission of women as students in the public universities that came into being after the Civil War. Smith College was founded in 1875 through a bequest from Sophia Smith. In 1861, Matthew Vassar donated $800,000 to found Vassar College (Smith
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