Imagine, during the World Anti-Slavery convention in 1840, two women were stirring up heated controversy because they were not allowed to be delegates, and could not go on the stand to speak simply because they were women. Well, these two women , Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton started conversation on women 's rights throughout this convention to each other. It took roughly eight years for their ideas and plans to fall into action. On July 19, 1848, 300 women gathered at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention was a total of two days, the first was intended solemly for women, and the second was for the public, including men.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader of the first women's rights movement in American history, wrote speech to address the problamatic differences between gender ineaqualities. Stanton uses a variety of the rhetorical devices throughout her speech to enhance the meaning of her purpose. Some devices that i will talk about during the essay will be the use of pathos, ethos, imagry, and apophasis. Stanton uses pathos when she states, "..gentlemen need feel no fear..." to clearify that men don't have to feel the same a women, women have to feel pain and fear and are constantly worried. Men don't have to worry about that.
The passage of the fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was viewed by some as a blessing and a curse. I would have sided with the National Woman Suffrage Association who did not support the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. The Fifteenth Amendment is the constitutional amendment that was ratified in 1869 that forbade states to deny citizens the right to vote on grounds of race, color,or “previous condition of servitude.” I would have sided with the National Woman Suffrage Association because Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony believed that instead of supporting the Fifteenth Amendment as it was, women’s rights activists should fight for women to be included as well. The National Woman Suffrage Association was a suffrage group
But this revolutionary time started clearing the path for equality, something we are still fighting for today. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” (Thomas Jefferson, 1776) This statement was produced hundreds of years ago by Thomas Jefferson. At the time, a statement like this was new. Although it states that all men are created equal, it is not inclusive of men of colour, or women.
Nothing has given me more pleasure than the privilege of doing what I could to hasten the day when the womanhood of the nation would be recognized on the equal footing it deserves” (Monroe, 1998, p. 78). Women now had the official and legal right to vote in the United States. In the 1920 presidential election, more than 8 million women across every precinct in the United States went to the polls to exercise their right to vote (Anderson, 2013, p. 57). Although women had now gained the right to vote, they still had only completed the first step to achieving equal
Women were not anywhere close to being equal to men like
"Over the past century, women in the United States and around the world have made great strides in the fight to gain economic, social and political equality. Since 1950, the percentage of women participating in the labor force has nearly doubled, from about 34 percent of women holding jobs outside the home. . . " Although men hated the fact that women wanted the right to vote and
Furthermore, after saying that governments do not have the power to take away women’s rights, she quotes, “All men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Have you ever wondered why women didn’t have the same rights as men to begin with? Even to this day, people still think of women as minorities because of their gender. It took many conventions and meetings for women to finally be granted voting rights in 1920. Why didn’t women have not only voting rights but any legal rights to begin with? There were many expectations and stereotypes for women a few centuries ago.
They were not seen as equal to men in many instances. Women deserve to be treated the same way as men because women can do everything the same as they can. There is no reason for there to be segregation when we are equally as talented . The 19th Amendment Act gave women rights that they deserved because they work just as hard as men, contribute equally to society as men do, and their intellectual capacities are more evolved in some cases.
In the “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton talks about how women have been oppressed since the beginning of time and the resolutions that need to be made in the government, so that women receive the rights they are entitled to. As a women in the U.S., I am very thankful for this speech and the author. Without the creation of this speech maybe American women would have never received the right to vote or to reach their full potential. While I read this eloquent piece of literature, I find that I share a common point of view with it. For example, it states that,”All men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.”
They were “kept from growing to their full human capacities. No goals. No ambition (Feminine Mystique, 1963). It is important to see that women were also treated unequal as well. They were not able to vote.
Only men had positions in government. Voting and serving on juries, for example, was only for men. In the To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus explains to the kids that only men were on the jury by saying “ ‘I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from
Before the 1820’s women were viewed as objects rather than actual spouses. Women 's duties were to take care of children without complaining and from birth were expected to live up to the role of being a mother of many children and to serve their husbands as a domestic employee. Women were considered the weaker vessel, because they are inferior in structure and in physical strength. Many people of the time believed that women should not stray from the traditional paths and should continue to be delicate women working to cook, clean, and care for the children. Individuals such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed traditional women’s gender roles and took apart of the Seneca Falls Convention that called for suffrage rights for women.
For decades only white men were allowed to vote, while slaves and women were deprived of this possibility (Field 114). However, abolitionist and women rights movements, which appeared as the answer to this discrimination, made society to rethink its priorities and create voting laws which took into account needs of all layers of society and guaranteed them the right to