Created by: Jorge Ruiz Conde Patricia Morillas Martinez Sara Ghivarello Katarina Branco Kio Fantone DIVERSTORY Inside Equality | Eramus+ | Training course Aim Raise awareness about the topic and history of feminism Objectives ‣ Raise awareness about how hard has been to achieve some rights. ‣ Develop conscience about how important it is and to cooperate and have strategies. ‣ Develop critical thinking about what is still missing in society. Participants ‣ 10-30. Flow ‣ No previous knowledge needed. Time: 2h 30min ‣ From 16 years old. ‣ Introduction : 5 min ‣ Able to run Location ‣ Activity one «First wave »: 15 min ‣ Big enough for participants to Activity two «Second wave »: 15 min move around (indoors or outdoor) ‣ Activity three «Third wave »: 30 min Materials ‣ Activity four «Fourth wave » : 45 min ‣ Tables and chairs for everyone ‣ Debriefing : 30 min ‣ Toothpicks, ropes ‣ Something to distinguish the ‣ Final evaluation : 10 min groups (headbands, stickers…) ‣ Cardboards, markers, color papers, glue, scissors, magazines… Text proofread by María de la Torre Gómez !1 Activity Introduction: Presentation and quick brainstorming on what feminism is while writing it down on a flip-chart. First wave: Participants are divided in two groups. In the first group, each participant wears 4 tails easily removable, while in the other one, participants wear only one. Those tails represent the rights they have (Annex 1). Each group has to chase the other one around to get as many tails as possible. Possible questions for the debriefing: ‣ How do you feel? ‣ What does this game represent? ‣ Which were your roles? Now, the facilitator gets all the tails from the group that originally had one tail and gives them to the other group, even the tail they started with. Second wave: Keeping the same groups as in the first wave, participants will repeat the game. This time the group without tails is handed tools (rope and toothpicks) that they can use in order to get the tails and can only be used by this group. Possible questions for the debriefing: ‣ How do you feel now? ‣ What does this variation of the game represent? ‣ What did your team had to do to be successful? ‣ How do you feel about “stealing/being stolen”? How is this in reality? Third wave: Participants are divided in two new groups. The aim of the game is to manage to play with a ball, passing it to all the members of both teams. The only rules are that one team cannot use their hands and the other team cannot use their legs. The facilitator will give each team the instructions in Annex 2. Possible questions for the debriefing: ‣ How do you feel? ‣ Do you feel you communicated well as a team? And between the teams? ‣ Did it work? How? ‣ Did you find a solution? If so, was everyone okay with the strategy? Text proofread by María de la Torre Gómez !2 ‣ What changes would you make in the way you communicated? ‣ What do you think was the purpose of the game? ‣ How do mirror it to the reality of feminism? (If needed, the facilitator can add the information on the history of feminism. Fourth wave: The idea here is to create posters, mottos, songs… to use in a demonstration for women’s rights. For that, participants will first debate about the rights women already achieved so far and which ones are left. If possible, arrange an activist walk in the street to show the results or an exhibition (for example in the activity room). Suggestions: The #MeToo movement can be promoted here by sharing personal stories. Possible questions for the debriefing: ‣ How do you feel now? (Three words maximum) ‣ How did you feel during the process of creating the materials? And during the walk/exhibition? ‣ How was the process of arranging the walk? ‣ What challenges did you face? ‣ What was the reaction of the people in the street? ‣ What did you learn from this experience? Debriefing Evaluation Do a simple physical activity like pretending to cross an imaginary door to step out of the participant role and help the meta analysis. ‣ How can you apply what you learned to your life or the workplace? ‣ What would you do differently? ‣ What surprised you the most? ‣ What did you enjoy about the activity? What didn’t you enjoy? Text proofread by María de la Torre Gómez !3 Information about History of Feminism The information was taken from this video. It is very short and clear, and has subtitles in many languages. Since the beginning of time, the common conception was that the man is the stronger sex and the woman is the weaker sex: more fragile, less capable, even less intelligent. This has been considered as something natural, given by nature. Man, based on that “natural superiority”, has been the protagonist of political, social and cultural decisions, and has left to the woman the role of raising children and taking care of the house (well, and of his sexual satisfaction). This went on for over five thousand years. Throughout history many women have been upset with this inequality, carrying out complaints and protests. but it is not until the eighteenth century when there is a collective awareness of this situation and an ideological and social movement that will fight to break it is born: the feminist movement. It started in the eighteenth century with the Renaissance. By then, if you were a woman, your natural role was to take care of the house, raise the children and WOMEN’S have sex with your husband. You were not allowed to study, vote or take family ROLE decisions, not even choose who you marry. If you worked, the money was for your husband. Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that defended social equality. The main idea was that we are all the same regardless of the social class; this led to the French Revolution, which brought "The Declaration of the Rights FIRST of Man and of the Citizen". This statement was supposed to speak about WAVE human rights, but it excluded women. Women did not understand how having a political change towards universal equality, they, half of the population, were excluded. And then two fundamental women appeared, leading to the so- called First Wave of Feminism. On the one hand, Olympe de Gouges replied to that text writing the “Declaration of the Rights of Women and of the Citizen”, which vindicated all civil rights for women. It is one of the first documents that advocates for the political and legal equality of women. On the other hand, Mary Wollstonecraft published the "Vindication of women's rights” in 1792. It is considered the text that founds feminism and it claims that the difference between the genders (man and woman) is not something "natural" as it was thought, but something cultural, something that is learned through education. Therefore, she advocated for an egalitarian education and many women began to question the need to stay at home. These first feminist demands that suppose an advance were met with a harsh repression: Olympe de Gouges, for example, was guillotined, many women were imprisoned, it was not allowed to meet more than five women on the street… At the beginning of 1800 the French Civil Code (or Napoleon Code) that extended throughout Europe required women to act with obedience to their husbands and it left them without civil or political rights. Instead of improving, women’s situation got worse. Of course, despite this defeat, things would never be the same again. The Second Wave of Feminism arrived: the Suffragism. This wave is not just an Text proofread by María de la Torre Gómez !4 intellectual movement alone, but it became a movement of social action as well. The suffragist movement arose in England and United States, and these countries influenced the rest. In the US, women had fought for independence of their country and they united to defend the rights of the slaves. Four women travelled to London to the anti-slavery congress, but they were not allowed to participate for the fact of being women. In the end, they were allowed to, but behind a curtain. Outraged, they became aware of their inequality as women and back to their country, two of them, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, begun their fight, now in favor of women's rights. In 1848 in Seneca Falls, they presented the "The Declaration of Feelings” in front of about 300 people. They fought to regain all civil rights, like equality of education and the vote. They put special emphasis on this last one because SECOND they thought that once they could vote, the other rights will come together. It WAVE was the beginning of American suffragism. Women began to defend their rights with massive demonstrations, protests, pamphlets… but it was not something simple, because for years and years they were humiliated and trampled. The same happened in England, but after almost half a century of "moderate" struggle they took action, and fought strongly through hunger strikes, linkages and sabotages to political leaders, including bombs and fires. And finally, little by little, from the end of the First World War, women started to get the vote in different countries of the world. In England they got it in 1918, yes, only for women over 30. In the US it was achieved in 1920 SUFFRAGIST although only for white women and 80 years after Seneca Falls. Slowly, other countries would follow. MOVEMENT But the suffragist movement was mainly a movement of white bourgeois and feminist women with other realities began to appear, as Sojourner Truth, a black slave who spoke for the first time about the double exclusion, for being black and woman.