Elizabeth Cady Stanton

that women were excluded, so when some women, among those being Susan B. Anthony, tried to vote under the ambiguous wording, they were arrested. Furthermore, the major women figures, Stanton, Anthony, and Lucy Stone were split apart due to their differences of opinion on supporting the 14th and 15th Amendments. Stanton and Anthony separated and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) which supported enfranchising women, but…

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was born in Moss Side, Manchester. In fact, it is her birth certificate, which states so; else she believed that she was born a day earlier on Bastille Day (The National Celebration) that had a special influence on her life. She was a British political activist, leader of the suffragette movement and was the major contributor in helping women to win the right to vote. She was born and brought up by her politically active parents in England. Out of ten children she…

During the first half of the twentieth century, the Colorado mountains became home to a handful of women who had fled the trappings of their former societies in hopes of refuge and adventure. One such woman was Virginia Donaghe McClurg, who became the first white woman to visit Mesa Verde and in later years would become immensely involved in the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, which fought to make the site a national park. Also an active member of this committee was Lucy Peabody, who,…

1. Although during Jackson’s presidency some things were made more democratic, I believe the ladder of his decisions outweighed these points and summarized his election to one where the majority of people lost their voice in the government. His level of democracy was increased by the abolitionist movement, where individuals such as William Lloyd Garrison tried to outlaw slavery and the women’s rights movement, where women began to speak out for gender and slavery equality. Both these examples…

Before the 19th Amendment in 1920, women couldn’t vote or do anything, especially the black woman. Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist who wrote the famous poem “Aint I a Woman?”. On May of 1851 Sojourner delivered the speech at the Ohio Women's right convention. The reason for “Aint I a Woman?” was to get rights for women because woman couldn’t vote or where looked upon as weak and not smart. This poem was intended for head political powers as well as men in america…

A New Woman is a feminist ideal who has evolved in the late nineteenth century and had a reflective power on feminism into the twentieth century. The term ‘New Woman’ was coined by an American writer, Sarah Grand in her article The New Aspect of the Woman Question, published in the North American Review in March 1894. The term was further popularized by British-American writer Henry James, to describe the growth in the number of feminist, educated, independent career women in Europe and the…

This photo was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston as a Full Self-Portrait, “New Woman”, in 1896. She received her first camera from George Eastman, the inventor of the Eastman Kodak and a family friend. She became a noted advocate for women’s photography as well as a documenter of key historic events. When she opened her own studio in New York in 1894, She was the only woman photographer in the city. Johnston also photographed many famous photographs in Paris, but perhaps her most famous work,…

The Relationship Between Class and Class Consciousness In Germany men were granted universal suffrage in 1871, while it took until 1919 for women to gain universal suffrage rights. Women were stuck in the shadow of the patriarchy and struggled to earn their suffrage. This political disenfranchisement applied to all women; the case that Rosa Luxemburg makes in her essays “Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle” and “The Proletariat Woman” is that even though women have the same biological…

Fanny Wright's Impact on the Women's Movement "I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.” (Fanny Wright). Fanny Wright was a lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She was married to her cause and used her whole life pushing what she believed in. While this list if long it just barely grazes all of the things she was. She was a first. She was the first women to speak to a large audience of men and women…

The film, Suffragette looks at the struggles the women who fought for the right to vote went through. The film takes place in London 1912, prior to women having the right to vote. As a result, women's rights were not valued as much. Caffi states that "Every social institution should have as its sole reason for being that of assuring the happiness of the man conscious of his own individuality" (Caffi 1970). A man's happiness, needs, and desires at this time were much more valuable than a woman's.…