Harriet Martineau: A Political Activist

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What is it that sets Harriet Martineau apart from other women in the 1800’s? How did the lack of affection from her mother shape the woman that we know as the “mother of sociology”? Or quite frankly, could it have been the culmination of the era in which she was raised in that made her turn heads when she ventured into a world that was greatly dominated by the male gender.

Harriet Martineau was nothing short of a politically outspoken activist in many distinct areas of sociology, one of which was women’s rights. I learned that through research in the Victorian era, women were not permitted to carry a writing utensil in public it was simply frowned upon. Acting so boldly in public by doing something that men did was very unbecoming of a

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