How Did Annie Oakley Impact The Women's Rights Movement?

Women’s rights were a huge conflict during the early 1860’s. The Moses family went through many challenges during this movement, but their father’s death impacted them the most. Annie Oakley was a young sharpshooter who created a powerful change in the women’s rights movement by using her talents to show that women can do anything men can do. Annie was one of the most determined women in history, and made a huge impact on young women all over the world by making them feel comfortable participating a “man’s sport”.
Annie Oakley was a very determined woman who faced a crippling injury to achieve her dream of making all sports a women’s sport. “Helped by publicists like Nate Salsbury and her own incredible shooting eye, Oakley remained a star

She wanted to prove that there are not just men’s sports, but that women can participate in them as well. “As far as the world knew, she was twenty, not twenty-six nearly as young as Lillian”

“She reveals ways in which she, as a famous woman, pushed the boundaries of expected gender roles and discourses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how reporters and audiences made sense of such a complex, multifaceted, and public gender performance” (Cansler). Annie’s sincerity especially stands out when she uses her publicity to prove that women can participate in a man’s sport. She did end up proving to the world that woman can do the same things men can do and even better than them too. "A few days out at sea, a ferocious storm hit the ship. As the Indians huddled together singing their death chants, Annie rode out the storm wrapped in oilskin and strapped to a chair. "Not a passenger except my husband and myself knew that we had been in danger of losing our lives," she wrote" (Spinner 68). Phoebe Ann has been through many difficult struggles throughout her life including a life threating storm at sea. When she was on her way to Europe she was traumatized by a terrible storm at sea. Just like her train wreck she had to overcome struggles and be great and she did. Annie Oakley's enormous popularity provides a means of understanding how the public, through the viewpoints of reporters and commentators, discussed and