Susan Glaspell

The role of women in society has changed drastically over the centuries. Women went from being subordinate to their husbands to having the right to not only live their lives freely but have minds of their own. In the stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The story of an Hour” both authors use a historical setting to show the place that women had in society. Both authors suggest that a women can feel trapped in her marriage and lose her sense of self. In the story the “Yellow Wallpaper” the…

Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women It is factual that most people think that feminism started in the early 20th century during the era of the suffragettes (Volkova, 892). However, the fact is that feminism efforts came along away even before the 20th century. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women is one of philosophical works that can be used as proof. As a matter of fact, Wollstonecraft's was published back in 1792, less than 20 years after the founding…

Iron Jawed Angels Movie Review The movie, Iron Jawed Angels, directed by Katja Von Garnier, depicted the women's suffragist movement during 1869-1914. On the brink of World War One, women all across America decided that their time to vote and participate in politics was now, and fought for their rights as citizens of the Unites States of America. The movie focuses on the life of Alice Paul (acted by Hillary Swank), as she separated herself from the National American Women Suffrage Association…

My story was Betty’s Bright Idea. The author of this story was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 as the daughter of a Congregationalist Minister, which influenced her religious views. Stowe also had seven brothers, and four sisters. One of her sisters, Catharine Beecher, was an author and school teacher. Another sister, Isabella, was a leader in the cause of women's rights. These two women helped shaped Stowe into what she would soon become. At age 21, Stowe moved to…

Identity Through A Name In Seneca Falls, NY the first meeting of the Women's Rights Movement took place on July 19-20, 1848. This was just the beginning of women's equality. Women started to wear pants in the 1920’s instead of a dress or skirt. They applied for jobs others thought were not appropriate for women. They also started peaceful protest in the streets demanding a right to vote. Women got creative when fighting for the rights that all humans deserve through their actions, music, and…

Hanna woube Lucretia Mott was American feminist and social reformer in the nineteenth century. She was raised by Quaker family, who expected her to become a leading social reformer. Lucretia Mott was a female abolitionist, a women's right activist, and religious reformer. Mott opposed to slavery and want to end slavery in the United States. She supported William Garrison’s ideas about slavery and his American Anti-slavery Society. She fought for women’s right with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She…

Minor. These women worked for centuries to gain women the right to vote, equal work wages, and equality next to men. While each of these women had a major part in women’s history, they each took a different approach at their successful efforts. Susan B. Anthony was born February 1820 to a Quaker family. Anthony’s parents encouraged education among all of their children. This stemmed Anthony’s fortitude and strive for social equality among both men and women. Anthony’s family ran into…

Gender roles have evolved significantly in the past two centuries. From females not having equal basic rights compared to males in the late 1800’s, to now females marching openly in Washington D.C to protest elections. When writing “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen really showed what the roles of male and female were like in the late 1800’s. Between now and then there have been plenty of movements for a woman to be treated as equal as a man, and in today’s western world women are not conforming to…

Nicole Moorefield Macpherson AP English III September 5, 2017 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls On July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton changed the course of American history forever. Standing before a crowd of almost two hundred women, Stanton read aloud the document she had prepared. The “Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances” or the “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” was structurally based on the Declaration of Independence,…

through, and wrote about it. She reformed the idea of religion and how it impacts women. She was a suffragist who later married a abolitionist who later changed everybody’s opinion on how women should be treated based on the bible. While commonly Susan B. Anthony is the most common name you hear when talking about women's rights, Stanton had an impact just as big. Elizabeth Cady Stanton will forever be known as the woman who paved the way for women…