National Women's Rights Convention

Mary Astell used Descartes’ argument to argue in favor of women’s equality. Astell used Descartes’ argument about the separation of the “mind” and the “body” to argue that sexual gender cannot determine one’s capability to reason. Rather, her philosophy claims that both men and women possess understanding and will. Astell argues that humans must use their understanding and will in order to reach God’s will, the ultimate truth. Similar to Descartes, Astell believes that God is a perfect and…

Over the time that I’ve been working on Women’s Suffrage it really has helped me gain lots of information on the 19th Amendment. In my story the main character is Kaitlyn, she basically telling you her story when the 19th Amendment was going on. The reason I picked Kaitlyn was because she is the same person as Alice Paul daughter. Alice Paul is a lady who played a big and important role on Women’s Suffrage. Alice daughter felt the same as Kaitlyn did. Kaitlyn did believe in the American Dream.…

During 1890 America was in a period of social and political reforms called progressive era. Progressives was mainly focused to eliminate corruption in The government. The main purpose of the progressives was to improve the social, economic and political structure in the United States of America. Progressive era emerged in 19th centaury due to the spiking industrialization and urbanization. Even though the intention of progressives was to stretch progressivism they supported to traditional views…

the accepted truth of contemporary religion which is what the traditional gender roles were based on.. Classical liberalism, claimed that each individual has the fundamental rights and freedoms that cannot be taken away by the government or any organization. If each individual, according to these theorists, had certain, rights regardless of class, creed, or colour, it was only logical to include women in this group too. Despite these ideas that many Enlightenment thinkers had, there were still…

of the United States forever. Southern women had to grapple with their own racial politics to gain the support of African American women for women's suffrage (Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow). African American women had taken the active role of teaching their community about American citizenship, and the pride of their race. African American women saw the women's suffrage as another step of pushing the racial divide (Goodstein, A Rare Alliance). While most white suffragists didn't see gaining the…

with the interactions between the main characters, Gus and Woodrow. Not only through the characters, but also through the plots of the novels. These elements will eleborate more into the point of these questions, ‘Does McMurtry represent women and women’s concerns well?’ and ‘What do you think McMurtry is arguing within his presentation of these characters’ relationships?’ Matilda Matilda is the first female character that is introduced in Dead Man’s Walk. Throughout…

Women’s Rights in America Women have run for Congress, broken olympic records, gone to space, became successful in their fields of study. Yet, women receive less pay in the work field, seemingly to be because men are looked at as being able to get the job done, and do more. Men may also be looked at as worth more. Many Americans do not know that the US Constitution does not guarantee equal rights for men and women. Women throughout America are not given equal rights as men. For centuries, women…

The argument that there are good reasons why someone might not identify as a feminist presented in Dr Brooke Magnanti’s article “Feminism. What does it mean anyway?” is a respectable and well thought argument. The conclusion that there are good reasons as to why someone might not identify as a feminist relies on Magnanti’s personal experience with feminism along with the different views of feminism throughout today’s society. The premises Magnanti uses are mostly dependent of each other.…

1) In The Passionate Journey Friedan describes the first wave of feminism during the late 1800’s into the early 1900’s. She talks of the fire that these women felt for their cause and wonders what happened in the to the mind set of those born after the 1920’s; social pressure is what, I feel, caused the change in behavior of women. 2) While reading these chapter I began to see the pattern that is often seen in history if one pay close enough attention. The slow start of an idea, like trying to…

America’s gifts to my generation are freedom, peace, and education. Each of these mean everything to me. For example, without freedom, we could be enslaved people, or farmers, or any other lower-class workers. Another example is peace. If there was no peace in the United States, we would probably already be in mid-war with North Korea. Last, but not least, is the gift of education. Out of all of these, education probably means the most to me because without education, none of us would be this…