Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/07/2018 - 10/21/2018
12:00 am
Location
Frick Pittsburgh
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An important anniversary in the struggle for women’s rights is being celebrated through this exhibition in the center’s Car & Carriage Museum.
On display are early automobiles and related material, revealing how technology has helped to liberate women. the exhibit marks the 170th anniversary of the Women’s Rights Convention.
Held for two days in the summer of 1848, the Women’s Rights Convention convened to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of woman. It took more than 70 years of activism, but finally in June 1919 the 19th amendment was passed, granting citizens the right to vote regardless of gender. The amendment was ratified in August 1920.
The automobile’s central role provided a mechanism for women’s identity — a means to free themselves from social and geographical limitations and also to transcend prevailing gender stereotypes about their inherent mechanical naiveté an ineptitude. Female drivers challenged the notion that women ought to remain sequestered in the home. By the 1920’s automobiles were a dominant cultural emblem of women’s modernity, independence and mobility.
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