Judith Sargent Murray

One of the early women to advocate this idea was Judith Sargent Murray. Judith Sargent Murray was an early American woman who proposed Women’s rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. Murray’s ideas about women’s rights were considered extreme in the 1700s. Murray asserted education should be equally offered to women as the same as men and argued for women to earned and manage their own money. By demanding women to be treating equally Murray challenged the founding fathers of American and opened doors to future generations of women’s suffrage. (National women’s history Museum) Judith Sargent Murray was born on May 1, 1751, in Gloucester, Massachusetts into a wealthy merchant family. As a daughter…

Judith Sargent Murray very efficiently debunks the idea that men and women are not equal in their intellect in her essay “Equality of the sexes”. During the 17th and 18th century, women we’re viewed as lesser than men in society. Young girls did not receive the same education as young boys, leaving them at a disadvantage. Because of this, women were forced into doing the domestic jobs in society, such as, sewing, cooking and cleaning. Murray find it preposterous that women are treated so…

primary source titled “On the Equality of the Sexes” was published by Judith Sargent Murray in 1790. She published her work in two parts. The first publication was written in the form of a poem followed by the second publication which was written as an essay. It is very interesting how Murray sarcastically titles her essay about the equality of the sexes when the majority of her essay explains the inequality between the sexes. However, in her essay, she introduces the ideas of intellectual and…

Judith Sargent Murry is not a well-known name in everyday life, but to women activists and historians she was a key part of the women’s rights in the eighteenth century. She was an advocate for women’s right to an education. Judith’s upbringing had a lot to do with her work toward equality. She was raised in a wealthy household where her brothers had an excellent education and she was not given the same opportunities. Judith wrote many manuscripts, essays, and poems throughout her life. One of…

Abigail Adam’s early signs of Feminism Feminism is an organized effort to give women the same economic, social, and political rights as men. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, supported early ideas of feminism or women’s rights, she focused most importantly on girls getting an education, she developed these ideas from her marriage to John and her influential childhood. First, Abigail Adams felt very strongly about girls receiving an education. Judith Sargent Murray felt strongly about…

The women’s rights movement was created with an intention to secure a legal, economic, and social equality for all women and this movement is also referred to as the “feminist movement.” The first women’s rights movement began in the early nineteenth-century, where they fought to ensure the property rights and suffrage for women (Dictionary). These early women’s rights had many activists among them, including Judith Sargent Murray, Fanny Fern and Sojourner Truth. Judith Sargent Murray was born…

The two writers Samson Occom and Judith Sargent Murray call attention to important social questions through their writing. Both of them have life lived experience of being on the receiving end of social injustice. In the essay “On the Equality of the Sexes” Judith Sargent Murray questioned the origin of male superiority by writing, ”May we not trace its source in the difference of education, and continued advantage? … Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old is more sage…

equality for females. While complete gender equality may have seem nearly incomprehensible to most due to the social constraints and traditions of the time, women like Judith Sargent Murray assisted in advocating for the rights of women by laying the foundational stepping stones for feminism in the United States. During her time, the world had undergone massive changes in challenging the traditional order, and the issues…

Judith Sargent Murray argues that nature gave men and women equally the ability to understand and think but did not provide women with the same chances of a “cultivated mind” as men. The statement, “she feels the want of a cultivated mind,” expresses Judith Sargent Murray’s thoughts of many women not being able to receive the same education that men can and not being allowed to express their thoughts the way men do, wanting those rights that men…

Thomas Jefferson to see the dependent status of women in the early republic. This notion that women were unequal to men was very prominent at the time and created a drastic divide. Thus, first we will examine Jefferson and then we will hear from Judith Sargent Murray who calls for equality within America regarding women’s rights. Jefferson was the first to advocate publicly funded education. He believed that education would prepare the people for public duties as well as their private pursuits.…