Summary Of A Jury Of Her Peers By Susan Glaspell

Why must women go through this? Women have suffered the fate of being held second class by most men for ages. Throughout times women’s rights that have come around and are better, but there are still many trials they must go through today. People watch every day as women get put down by men and even other women at times that say, “that’s just how things are.” When will these types of false accusations based off stereotypes come to an end? Things are slowly changing for the better but there is so much more we could do to help. Susan Glaspell was an early 19th century feminist writer that gave us a good vision of how things were at the time. She wrote about her own trials and life back then that she had to overcome. Women and men back then had completely different minds sets of how the home should be. At that time people mainly, part of farming households and everyone had their own jobs to help, and work around the farm. Men at the time were the farm workers and women more of the house workers, but women were not ones to not do farm work as well. Susan Glaspell was one of these women that helped in all types of ways around the farm and house. Susan Glaspell did her fair share of writings. She specifically had a short story which was called “A Jury of Her Peers.” This story showed women banning

There’s several we could talk about, but I feel Lucretia Coffin Mott is often looked over, by getting no appreciation. Melinda Plastas wrote an article called “Peace and Change” found on web.b.ebscohost.com, which depicts the life and contributions Mott created over the years. Plastas started off with, “Lucretia Coffin Mott is remembered today for her participation in the founding meeting of the U.S. women’s rights movement in 1848.” She wants to give us the feel of what type of contributions Mott gave to us