Journal 2
The Feminist movement has come a long way since conceptualization. Prior to the 19th century, women were without many basic rights, and often only regarded as glorified sexual servants, or “hosts” for children as republican politician Justin Humphrey recently stated. They didn’t have many of the basic rights that they do today, such as the right to own property or children, women were instead considered property of their husbands. It wasn’t until the age of enlightenment that the mass of women began to question whether they had more value than the role they served as wife and caretakers. Economically women have advanced from sharing their economic power with men, becoming more independent in the process.
An important question that …show more content…
An excerpt in Lemert shows how a woman would be adorned in clothes and jewelry relevant to her husband’s earnings, or their father if unmarried. As stated before, equal rights were one of the major issues which feminists pushed for, but for true equality between men and women to exist there has to be equal economic value. The reason being that in a capitalistic society there is an analogous relationships between money, Status, and power. Is there true equality in our democracy when billionaire republicans or corporations can buy out politicians and dispute women’s rights for abortion or access to birth control? Over the last century women have made significant economical progression, however modern women are often expected to both work and handle the majority of the caretaking of …show more content…
This berating makes it “uncool” to defend other’s civil liberties, whether in person or online. It’s fascinating how people can take advantage of language, and use it against others. People now use the sort of tone to signify contempt when they use the phrase social justice warriors as people once mentioned the words communist, or homosexual.The documentary one woman one vote, shows the adventure through which brave women and men fought for equality. Of Elizabeth Stanton and company many were abolitionists long before they began to fight for the woman rights. It’s strange when you consider that Elizabeth Stanton’s most “radical” demand was asking for woman’s right to vote, especially when women did not have the rights to own property or even divorce. Another one of the suffrage movement’s greatest contributors was Elizabeth Staton’s friend, Susan B Anthony. Commonly noted for getting arrested in November of 1872 for taking women to vote in polls when it was still illegal, afterwards she was ruled too incompetent to testify because she was a woman, but was allowed a statement, in which she stated vehemently that her
The Feminist movement has come a long way since conceptualization. Prior to the 19th century, women were without many basic rights, and often only regarded as glorified sexual servants, or “hosts” for children as republican politician Justin Humphrey recently stated. They didn’t have many of the basic rights that they do today, such as the right to own property or children, women were instead considered property of their husbands. It wasn’t until the age of enlightenment that the mass of women began to question whether they had more value than the role they served as wife and caretakers. Economically women have advanced from sharing their economic power with men, becoming more independent in the process.
An important question that …show more content…
An excerpt in Lemert shows how a woman would be adorned in clothes and jewelry relevant to her husband’s earnings, or their father if unmarried. As stated before, equal rights were one of the major issues which feminists pushed for, but for true equality between men and women to exist there has to be equal economic value. The reason being that in a capitalistic society there is an analogous relationships between money, Status, and power. Is there true equality in our democracy when billionaire republicans or corporations can buy out politicians and dispute women’s rights for abortion or access to birth control? Over the last century women have made significant economical progression, however modern women are often expected to both work and handle the majority of the caretaking of …show more content…
This berating makes it “uncool” to defend other’s civil liberties, whether in person or online. It’s fascinating how people can take advantage of language, and use it against others. People now use the sort of tone to signify contempt when they use the phrase social justice warriors as people once mentioned the words communist, or homosexual.The documentary one woman one vote, shows the adventure through which brave women and men fought for equality. Of Elizabeth Stanton and company many were abolitionists long before they began to fight for the woman rights. It’s strange when you consider that Elizabeth Stanton’s most “radical” demand was asking for woman’s right to vote, especially when women did not have the rights to own property or even divorce. Another one of the suffrage movement’s greatest contributors was Elizabeth Staton’s friend, Susan B Anthony. Commonly noted for getting arrested in November of 1872 for taking women to vote in polls when it was still illegal, afterwards she was ruled too incompetent to testify because she was a woman, but was allowed a statement, in which she stated vehemently that her