In the nineteenth century the establishment of gender roles was prevalent. The man was the head of the household and the woman was his follower. However, F. Heppenheimers, 1855 satirical illustration “The Discord” was one of the many pieces that began to raise question of this power dynamic. The piece was a satirical perspective of the relationship of men and women in society and the underlying feelings women felt around this time. The image depicts a man and a woman both pulling on a pair of jeans; the jeans an evident symbolism for dominance. The painting depicts the struggle of establishing who will be submissive and who will be dominant. On the right of side of the painting a man is illustrated asserting his dominance and stating, “Rather
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The turning point for this movement began at Seneca Falls when the women declared herself equal to the man. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote women’s grievances in the Declaration of Sentiments. Stanton cleverly mimicked the Declaration of Independence format when she wrote these grievances in an effort to portray the irony of women’s injustice. Like the Declaration of Independence, she states all the unjust social roles woman had to accept and conform to. She states the irony in the man’s actions had an uncanny resemblance to that of the king, “the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman…” (Stanton 240). Men’s establishment of dominance and usurpation was unjust and hypocritical. In God’s eyes all were equal: “He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it his right it assign for her a sphere of action that belongs to her conscience and to her God.” (Stanton 241). She argues that women have been denied their basic civil right, “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable rights to the elective franchise. …compelled her to submit to laws…which she has no voice…withheld her rights…given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners” (Stanton 240). Stanton argues of the unfair treatment of women and their denial of rights as citizens; rights that were not
The turning point for this movement began at Seneca Falls when the women declared herself equal to the man. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote women’s grievances in the Declaration of Sentiments. Stanton cleverly mimicked the Declaration of Independence format when she wrote these grievances in an effort to portray the irony of women’s injustice. Like the Declaration of Independence, she states all the unjust social roles woman had to accept and conform to. She states the irony in the man’s actions had an uncanny resemblance to that of the king, “the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman…” (Stanton 240). Men’s establishment of dominance and usurpation was unjust and hypocritical. In God’s eyes all were equal: “He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it his right it assign for her a sphere of action that belongs to her conscience and to her God.” (Stanton 241). She argues that women have been denied their basic civil right, “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable rights to the elective franchise. …compelled her to submit to laws…which she has no voice…withheld her rights…given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners” (Stanton 240). Stanton argues of the unfair treatment of women and their denial of rights as citizens; rights that were not