Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman

by Mary Jane Treacy

Overview

Greenwich Village, 1913 immerses students in the radical possibilities unlocked by the modern age. Exposed to ideas like women's suffrage, socialism, birth control, and anarchism, students experiment with forms of political participation and bohemian self-discovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469670690
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	07/01/2022
Series:	Reacting to the PastT
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Mary Jane Treacy is professor of modern languages, emerita at Simmons College.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

Brief Overview of the Game 3

Factions 4

Wild Cards 4

Indeterminates 4

Prologue 5

Life at Its Fullest 5

How to React 8

Game Setup 8

Game Play 9

Game Requirements 9

2 Historical Background

Greenwich Village, 1913 13

Map of Greenwich Village 15

Women's Rights and Suffrage 16

Chronology 16

Women's Rights and Suffrage, 1776-1840 17

Women's Rights, 1840-1870 18

Discord over the Fifteenth Amendment, 1869-1890 21

Struggles for Suffrage, 1870-1913 22

The Antis 25

Votes for Women 28

Labor and Labor Movements 31

Chronology 31

Labor and Labor Movements, 1800-1900 32

Labor in the East 33

Woman's Work 35

The Women's Trade Union League, 1903 37

The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand, 1909 38

Anatomy of a Strike 40

Class Struggle 42

The IWW in the East: Paterson, New Jersey 45

Parades and Pageants, 1900-1920 46

Bohemia: The Spirit of the New 51

Chronology 51

The Spirit of the New 52

Bohemia and "The New Woman" 54

The Old in the New 56

"It's Sex O'clock in America," Current Opinion, August 1913 58

On the Margins 62

The Color Line in American Life 64

3 The Game

Major Issues for Debate 69

Suffrage Issues 70

Labor Issues 70

Bohemian Issues 71

Issues for All Players 71

Rules and Procedures 71

Victory Objective: Win the Vote in Game Session 8 71

How to Win the Vote 72

How to Gather Personal Influence Points (PIPs) 72

Special Ways to Accrue PIPs 78

Develop a "Winning Plan" for Greenwich Village, 1913 80

Strategies 81

For All Players: Mabel Dodge's Mailbox 81

For Most Players 81

For All Faction Members 81

For the Labor Faction: Haledon, New Jersey 81

For Faction Members: Jumping Ship 82

For All Indeterminates 82

For "Female" Indeterminates: Heterodoxy 92

For All Indeterminates: A Bohemian Coup 83

Basic Outline of the Game 85

Preparatory Sessions: 85

Session 1 Women's Rights and Suffrage 85

Session 2 Labor and Labor Movements 85

Session 3 The Spirit of the New 86

Game Sessions: 87

Session 4 The Suffrage Cause 87

Session 5 Labor Has Its Day 88

Session 6 The Feminist Mass Meeting 89

Session 7 Mabel Dodge's Evening 90

Session 8 Thus Speak The Masses and the Vote 91

Session 9 1917-Facing the Future and Debriefing the Game 92

Assignments 93

Writing Assignments 93

Tests and Quizzes on the Required Readings 93

Oral Presentations 93

Individual Tasks and Victory Objectives 93

Winning the Game 93

4 Roles and Factions

Introduction 95

Factions 95

The Suffrage Faction 95

The Labor Faction 95

Wild Cards 96

Indeterminates: Villagers and Their Friends 97

Gamemaster 99

5 Core Texts

Women's Rights and Suffrage

"Declaration of Sentiments." 1348 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 101

Godey's Lady's Book "The Constant." 1851 104

"Solitude of Self." 1892 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 104

"American Women and the Common Law." What Eight Million Women Want 1910 Rheta Childe Dorr 112

"Woman Suffrage." Anarchism and Other Essays. 1910 Emma Goldman 117

"On the Ennobling of the Woman's Business." The Business of Being a Woman. 1912 Ida M. Tarbell 120

"United We Stand." The Masses. 1914 Cornelia Barns 128

"Woman Suffrage." The Crisis. 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois 129

"Confession of a Suffrage Orator." The Masses. 1915 Max Eastman 131

"Why Women Should Vote." Woman Suffrage: History, Arguments, and Results. 1916 Jane Addams 136

"A Militant General-Alice Paul." Jailed for Freedom. 1920 Doris Stevens 143

"Now We Can Begin." The Liberator. 1920 Crystal Eastman 148

Labor and Labor Movements

"Bourgeois and Proletarians." Manifesto of the Communist Party. 1848 Karl Marx 153

'Anarchism Versus Socialism." 1901 Daniel De Leon 162

"Industrial Amelioration." Democracy and Social Ethics. 1902 Jane Addams 168

Women's Trade Union League Seal. 1908 172

"Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay." The Little Red Song Book. 1909 Joe Hill 173

Anarchism: What It Really Stands For." Anarchism and Other Essays. 1910 Emma Goldman 175

"Bread and Roses." The American Magazine. 1911 James Oppenheim 179

"The General Strike." 1911 William Haywood 180

Socialist Party of America Socialist Party Platform of 1912 185

Art Young "Uncle Sam Ruled Out." Solidarity. 1913 188

"The I.W.W. Call to Women." Solidarity. 1915 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 189

Bohemia: The Spirit of the New

Chapter XIV Women and Economics. 1898 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 194

"Ethical Considerations." The Family. 1906 Elsie Clews Parsons 199

"The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation." Anarchism and Other Essays. 1910 Emma Goldman 204

"The Bohemian, the American and the Foreigner." Types from City Streets. 1910 Hutchins Hapgood 210

"The Feminist Movement." Women as World Builders. 1913 Floyd Dell 215

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Women as World Builders. 1913 Floyd Dell 216

"Youth." The Atlantic Monthly. 1912 Randolph Bourne 220

"Introduction." Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest. 1914 Walter Lippmann 222

"A Note on the Woman's Movement." Drift and Mastery. 1914 Walter Lippmann 225

Aim." The Woman Rebel. 1914 Margaret Sanger 234

"Constancy: A Dialogue." 1916 Neith Boyce 239

"Trans-National America." The Atlantic Monthly. 1916 Randolph Bourne 247

Endnotes 257

Acknowledgements 258

Credits 259