{"id":75775,"date":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/suffrage-and-sashes-uris-long-rhode-to-the-vote-series-discusses-the-complicated-relationship-between-pageantry-and-feminism\/"},"modified":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","slug":"suffrage-and-sashes-uris-long-rhode-to-the-vote-series-discusses-the-complicated-relationship-between-pageantry-and-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/suffrage-and-sashes-uris-long-rhode-to-the-vote-series-discusses-the-complicated-relationship-between-pageantry-and-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffrage and Sashes: 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s \u2018Long Rhode to the Vote\u2019 series discusses the complicated relationship between pageantry and feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 22, 2020 \u2013 Founded in 1921 and featuring contestants wearing sashes inspired by the suffrage movement, the Miss America pageant has a complicated history. In fact, America\u2019s first beauty contest began just a year after the ratification of the 19th<\/sup> Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.<\/p>\n

On, Thursday, Oct. 29, <\/strong>Hilary Levey Friedman, author of Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America<\/em>, will explore the history of the suffrage sash and how it influenced the Miss America Pageant in a free, virtual lecture entitled, Suffrage and Sashes: American Pageantry and the Feminist Movement<\/strong>. Friedman, who teaches at Brown University and is president of the Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Women, appears at 7 p.m. as part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Long Rhode to the Vote: Suffrage Centennial Lecture Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is uncomfortable to recognize that shortly after women got the right to vote, an enduring national ritual developed that silenced women and reduced them to their appearance \u2014 even if at the time, a woman presenting her body to be judged in public, especially in a swimsuit, was quite unconventional,\u201d\u00a0said Friedman, in a recent New York Times Op-ed<\/a>. Friedman\u2019s mother, Pamela Eldred, a former Miss Michigan, was crowned Miss America in 1970.<\/p>\n

The series is sponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for the Humanities, the program in Gender and Women\u2019s Studies, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors Program, the Women\u2019s Leadership Council and the Suffrage Centennial Committee. It\u00a0marks two monumental events in American history: the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment that at least nominally enfranchised African American men.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the series hosted Johns Hopkins University Professor Martha S. Jones who spoke on race and suffrage. Her lecture How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All<\/strong><\/a> discussed some of the hurdles that still remain for Black women and many others who wish to exercise their right to vote.<\/p>\n

For more information on upcoming lectures, to view past lectures, or to register for Suffrage and Sashes: American Pageantry and the Feminist Movement<\/strong>, visit: uri.edu\/suffrage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 22, 2020 \u2013 Founded in 1921 and featuring contestants wearing sashes inspired by the suffrage movement, the Miss America pageant has a complicated history. In fact, America\u2019s first beauty contest began just a year after the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-75775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}