Petticoat affair

Without the unification of the women’s rights movement and abolitionists movement, the rights and independence that is present in modern day, wouldn’t have existed. Before the abolitionist movement, women had little to no rights; not to mention if you were a women of color you had no rights whatsoever. Each anti-slavery convention and movement was a step closer for women and colored people earning their rights and freedom. The fight for both movements brought unity between women and people of…

What then would be daring and provocative, but would now be considered soft-core pornography, Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina (1743) deals with the sexual desire of both men and women. They are held as equal in this story, perhaps even moving slightly more to the women’s side as the title character Fantomina is often the one making first contact, as well as putting in the extra effort of creating costumes to attain her next fix of pleasure. Yet Haywood’s heroine goes beyond her disguises’ purpose of…