National Women's Rights Convention

In “Glamorous Witchcraft”, writer Rachel Moseley discusses her viewpoints on teenage witches, femininity, and feminism. Witchcraft, in her opinion, has been revealed as something glamorous over the years in the media. Many of the ideas associated with magic are linked with the feminine “allure” that seems to entrance many. There are multiple comparisons between the concept of what magic represents, and what femininity symbolizes. Both are related to power and charm, and are a perfect depiction…

Since the 1870s, Canadian women had been fighting for suffrage- the right to vote. However, at that time, a lot of men even the premier of Manitoba Rodmond Roblin didn't agree that women can have the rights to vote. In 1916, Women in Canada got the right which allowed them to vote in provincial election by the new Manitoba government. Later in 1916, Saskatchewan and Alberta also gave women the right to vote in provincial election. After the Ontario and British Columbia followed those examples in…

In her 1981 bibliographic essay, religious scholar F. Ellen Weaver highlights a lack of creative studies on women and gender in early modern France. To answer the “exciting challenge” of combining women’s history and religious history during this period, she calls for not only the translation of some of the best French studies and primary sources, but also innovative studies which will use new perspectives, raise new questions, and make use of “the sources available in French archives,…

men and women think that women have overcame everything, but that is not true. Their biggest and most profound march was in 1913 and it was called “The Suffrage Hike for Women’s Rights.” The biggest leading cause one of their march was for women to be able to vote. Their biggest achievements was in 1920 when they had won the right to vote. In 1920 women had won votes from people all around the nation. It took seventy two years of protest and rallies, but it was all worth it. New…

However, Steve emphasized that his unmatched hat, which is knitted in pinks and browns and blues and oranges and lime green by Barbara Sullivan. He’ s arguing about racial profiling and the lack of basic rights of black people. Due to racial profiling, so many people are being targeted, discriminated, even murdered by police for being black. A piece of Steve’s article says, no one made eye contact with him and people look at him like he’s a criminal, except…

Often when we think of women, we think of them as house-wives, stay-at home, and no education. The idea of women in poltics, education, and management was slowly developing with the status quo changing as women saught a need to be equal with men. As the world slowly evolved, women sought the need to have their voices heard of a better life, and the violence layed upon them. During World War II, the French Resistance was a major factor in the liberation of France from the Nazi. Many of whom were…

another race than a gender, or sex. This movement known as Women’s Rights Movement is the reason that women started reaching equal treatment between the workforce and government. Although there was a Women’s Rights Movement, there are issues that still have not been address. These issues are dealing with women’s economics, leadership, education, safety, etc. The things that women are being denied have broken the boundaries of their unalienable rights as an American citizen. Violence against…

Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., up a low hill there is the grave of Susan B. Anthony a leader of the movement for women’s suffrage who lived about three miles away. On Tuesday a line of hundreds of people who came here to pay their respects. They left notes of thanks to a woman who was arrested when she dared to vote and who did not live to see women granted that right. her grave stone was cover in stickers of “I voted.” Lovely Warren, the mayor of Rochester and…

equal rights as men and were able to sit down with their men counterparts during a meeting in the mid 1800’s to sign “The Declaration of Sentiments” in Seneca Falls, New York (1) . This declaration was to give women the same rights as men along with education and employment. Before such a meeting took place, women across the United States were limited to only being able to be housewives and not able to get the proper education to have the same type of jobs as men. Events like the Women’s Rights…

Aside from battles between races, there have been movements fighting for equal rights for women. Sometimes, people act like only things in their vicinity affect them. Throughout the course of history though, it has become evident that things across the world can have an impact on your own life. Recently, there have been protests in the Middle East for equality. One important leader in this fight has been Malala Yousafzai, a girl trying to reach a point where education is available to all girls.…