WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN VANISHING POINTS

By the time that these women were grown women and practicing their chosen crafts, a great deal of the Suffragette Movement had ended, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

However, they were living in the wake of a veritable feminist uprising and while the two American women may represent two halves of a whole – Aimee a beacon of traditional American values and Amelia representing the American liberated woman, unafraid to move in a man’s world – they were all women in a time when the definition of that word, and the expectations it implies, were being questioned, reexamined, newly defined.