Margaret Fuller's Woman In The Nineteenth Century

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Women already faced issues such as the inability to own property or vote (women that were not slaves) therefore to put a woman in a slave’s position or work, it severely depresses the idea for a woman to feel in control. In the document “Margaret Fuller’s “Woman in the Nineteenth Century,” it says that if less talents are given to a woman, she must rejoice. I think this exploits an idea that women do anything or everything with grace. There was another source listed under Chapter 12 images, which included the “The May Session of the Women’s Rights Convention” clearly shows that when a woman is speaking not nearly everyone listens as if it were a male. There was severe truth in this source because during this time women struggled to find

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