Margaret Fuller Women's Role In Society Essay

1.Criticism: Margaret Fuller looked into the role of women during the early 1800s and felt that they should have a greater role in society. Women during her time did not have proper education, did not have many political rights, and were forced to work jobs that were for women such as, teaching and Fuller had great confidence that women were able to gain equality so she tried to advocate as much as she could.

2.Methods Used: Margaret Fuller, to try to combat the oppression of women, established formal “conversations” which were large gatherings among women that were designed to encourage women in self-expression and independent thinking. These conversations have allowed women to openly discuss issues that they were forbidden to talk about outside. She also, while working as an editor for The Dial, a small transcendentalist journal, published an essay, The Great Lawsuit: Man Versus Men, Woman Versus Women in which she called for women’s equality. In 1845, she published a feminist book called Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which was an expansion of …show more content…
However, it did spark ideas revolving around women’s role in society and inspired many reformists and women's rights. Her book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century was very well received by many critics and editors such as, Rufus Griswold who referred to her book as “an eloquent expression of her discontent at having been created female” and Edgar Allan Poe wrote of the book as “a book which few women in the country could have written, and no woman in the country would have published, with the exception of Miss Fuller.” Because it was so well received by both men and women, the book had a tremendous influence on the minds of women and future