Society has mostly been ruled by a paternalistic hierarchy. Condemning men as the one with the higher status and more power women were usually neglected, oppressed and abused. In past decades, women were viewed as fragile while men were view as invincible. While men were seen as the breadwinner, women were expected to stay at home and attend essentially to the needs of their families. Women were not considerate into decision making, especially in settings that involved power, such as politics and religion because as it is already known in a patriarchal society the power of the society resides in men. As the time has passed, the situation for women has advanced providing women with a higher status than the one they used to have decades ago.
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As stated by Hogeland (1999), Victoria Woodhull was “the first woman Wall Street stockbroker, the first to testify before Congress, the first to run for president” (p.1). As it is already known all those declarations were portrayed as only for men before she decided to make a change in society’s perspective. Compared to other feminists, Woodhull is often considered controversial for her beliefs and actions. She is perceived as scandalous because she used to promote the idea of “free love”, she was also really open about promoting women’s sexuality (Hogeland, 1999). At the time her ideas went against the conservative views of society, in which women were not supposed to talk about their sexual lives and just have their husbands or future husbands as sexual parents. To sum up, Victoria Woodhull established a new ideal for women by breaking several stereotypes such as women in Wall Street and women in politics but also by encouraging women to be open about their sexuality. She gave women in society a new perspective about what they could achieve if they were to rebel to the conservative ideals that were established by their …show more content…
Sanger believed and promoted that women could do whatever they wanted with their bodies. Also, she was an advocate on birth-control challenging the laws that were established at the time. She believed women should be able to control their fertility, that couples should have the right to be free of undesired pregnancies, concluding that every child should be wanted (Wardell, 1980). In other words, she believed that birth control was necessary in order to make a better and happier society. Going against the Comstock laws at the time Sanger opened the first U.S birth control clinic in 1916 alongside her sister (Wardell, 1980). She also started a newspaper in which she promoted her ideals, she called this newspaper “The woman rebel”. In her paper as stated by Wardell (1980), Margaret Sanger promoted “That a woman must be “mistress of her own body” and that forced motherhood is the most complete denial of a woman’s right of life and liberty” (p.4). With her newspaper she wanted women to be able to rebel against the stereotypes to which they were subject in society in which they were view by their biological capacities rather than their intellectual
As stated by Hogeland (1999), Victoria Woodhull was “the first woman Wall Street stockbroker, the first to testify before Congress, the first to run for president” (p.1). As it is already known all those declarations were portrayed as only for men before she decided to make a change in society’s perspective. Compared to other feminists, Woodhull is often considered controversial for her beliefs and actions. She is perceived as scandalous because she used to promote the idea of “free love”, she was also really open about promoting women’s sexuality (Hogeland, 1999). At the time her ideas went against the conservative views of society, in which women were not supposed to talk about their sexual lives and just have their husbands or future husbands as sexual parents. To sum up, Victoria Woodhull established a new ideal for women by breaking several stereotypes such as women in Wall Street and women in politics but also by encouraging women to be open about their sexuality. She gave women in society a new perspective about what they could achieve if they were to rebel to the conservative ideals that were established by their …show more content…
Sanger believed and promoted that women could do whatever they wanted with their bodies. Also, she was an advocate on birth-control challenging the laws that were established at the time. She believed women should be able to control their fertility, that couples should have the right to be free of undesired pregnancies, concluding that every child should be wanted (Wardell, 1980). In other words, she believed that birth control was necessary in order to make a better and happier society. Going against the Comstock laws at the time Sanger opened the first U.S birth control clinic in 1916 alongside her sister (Wardell, 1980). She also started a newspaper in which she promoted her ideals, she called this newspaper “The woman rebel”. In her paper as stated by Wardell (1980), Margaret Sanger promoted “That a woman must be “mistress of her own body” and that forced motherhood is the most complete denial of a woman’s right of life and liberty” (p.4). With her newspaper she wanted women to be able to rebel against the stereotypes to which they were subject in society in which they were view by their biological capacities rather than their intellectual