Susan Glaspell

In the time that Alice Hoffman set the book The Museum of Extraordinary Things, women were struggling with the fact that they had no rights. During the time 1911 to 1920, women were like lambs to the slaughter because they were treated like delicate creatures that needed to be protected by a strong man from other evil men. Women had no goals or ambitions because they were living in patriarchal society. Before women had rights, they lived in a world that was not their own. During 1911, they…

The Suffrage - Word vs. Violence “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” This simple line written by Mary Wollstonecraft in her book A vindication of the rights of Woman (1758) produce a sentiment that many today takes for granted; The right for a woman to have power over herself, to live her own life and to vote. The sadness in this remark is that it would take another 160 years before all women in Britain over the age of 30 with the minimum property…

A fourth progressive that had a lasting impact was Mother Jones. She was born in Ireland and was known for coordinating many strikes and marches, the most well-known being the children’s march, the goal of which was to get child labor laws. During this march, Mother Jones walked with children who were working in the mills from Philadelphia to New York to see President Theodore Roosevelt. The President stays out of town during the march, however, as a result of this march, child labor laws…

Carrie Chapman Catt was an extraordinary woman and activist promoting the rights of women for their political freedoms. Moreover, Catt’s background as a teacher, superintendent of schools, and women’s activist gave credibility to her being a well-educated and refined woman, providing the ethos of her claim. (History.com) For this reason, she was more than capable of advocating for all women of our great country in the fight to allow women the right to a say in their government by giving them the…

The Seneca falls convention opened the eye of many women on how men had all the rights unlike women who had slim to none. Before the Convention, women were denied many opportunities for instance, the right to vote, education, and were basically treated like property. Leading this convention there were five very strong figures who influenced the beginning of a revolution called the Women’s Right Movement. Therefore, the Women’s Convection at Seneca falls was what set the chain of events that led…

“Feminism is an interdisciplinary approach to issues of equality and equity based on gender, gender expression, gender identity, sex, and sexuality as understood through social theories and political activism” (Day, 2016). Feminism first came to light in 1840 when two brave women named Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended a World Anti-Slavery Convention (“Seneca Falls Convention Begins,” n.d.). During the convention, the two women were barred from the convention floor because of…

Why must an individual speak about discriminations committed by her nation in the previous year? To respect individuals who underwent the suffrage? To protect in contrast to the duplication of errors? For any of the above reasons, Americans and predominantly Texans ought to read Jan Jarboe Russell’s “The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II.” A little about the person behind the overflowing story was Jan…

There are many reason why the invention of the bicycle changed women’s lives, contributing to the individualistic thought that brought forth waves of feminism. Susan B. Anthony wrote, “That which made me succeed with the bicycle was precisely what had gained me a measure of success in life”; in The life and work of Susan B. Anthony: including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years. A story of the evolution of the status of woman, she equates her…

The law was passed in 1860. Susan did a lot of other things to ensure women were treated just as equal. She served as a state agent for the American Antislavery Society and worked to secure equal pay for women teachers. She also started an organization to support the emancipation of…

Strong Born in San Francisco, Jana Harris is the author of “Don’t Cheapen Yourself” a poem empowering woman. This poem was created at a time when women were fighting for equal rights. In the poem, the subject who appears to be a young woman is confronted by her mother who calls her “sleazy” (line1). This would suggest her mother does not agree with the selections of clothing, since she is accustomed to more conservative ways for a woman to dress and percent herself in public; to her mother’s…