Women's suffrage

The impact, which has been made through activism in various regions of the world, becomes influential to the global community. Women’s suffrage in Ireland holds a reputation of becoming a spearhead to those in other regions. The historical movements, which were formed by women in Ireland, became significant to the international movement of women’s suffrage while influencing specific philosophies in relation to activists and feminism. When looking at writings such as “The Vindication of the…

In today’s society, women’s right to vote is indisputable, but in the late eighteen hundreds, it was the complete opposite. Susan Brownwell Anthony, a pioneer progresser of women’s suffrage, lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In her speech, On Women’s Right to Vote, Anthony advocates that women, who are also citizens, deserve to vote and not be punished for practicing a Constitutional right. She writes this speech to justify her reason for voting, and to persuade others to…

Women in the 19th century did not have as many rights or opportunities as men, but an increasing presence of women in the workforce, and a call for better education for women, helped create the decline of the patriarchy, and cleared the way for the women’s rights movement. 50 years after the declaration of independence, the republic had turned into a democracy, where received authority and past experience lost their power. Rural overcrowding and young people moving west instead of staying…

start in the changing of women’s role in the world. Key figures, who wanted a better life for all females, began to create national organizations, such as the General Federation of Women’s Club, the National Council of Jewish Women, National Association of Colored Women, and the National American Women Suffrage Association. The National American Women Suffrage Association was originally the National Women Suffrage Association until it and the later American Women Suffrage Association were joined…

The first feminist movement started towards the end of the nineteenth century and centered on women’s right to vote. Before the movement, women were considered inferior to men and that was the normal way of life. Women were extremely limited when it came to their occupations, mostly either a nurse or a governess, a woman who cares for a child’s upbringing or education (Marks, 24). It is likely many more women became dependents who relied on extended family members to take for them as they had no…

The Women’s Rights movement began in 1848 and throughout the years has made a difference in the lives of women in the U.S. The fight for women to be complete equals to men is still going on, but the efforts of the women of the late 1840s has helped change the status of women in several ways. Before the movement began American women were not allowed to vote, had very few rights in regards to owning property and their own earning, they couldn’t take custody of their children if they were to get a…

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the fight for women’s voting rights was well in motion. Emmeline Pankhurst’s “Why We Are Militant” and Almorth Wright’s The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage offered insights into the fight for and against justices while imploring opposing viewpoints on the matter. Pankhurst led women in demonstrations, passive resistance, and hunger strikes in Great Britain. “Why We Are Militant” was a speech she delivered in the United States as an appeal…

and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Susan E. Marshall’s novel, Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage, focuses on a struggle against suffrage for women throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book not only goes into great detail about the woman’s antisuffrage movement, but it also goes in depth in the campaign for women’s suffrage. The book shows how the antisuffrage…

The Women’s Rights Movement is a movement created for and by women who seek equality in their personal lives, workplaces, and in their families. This movement is also referred to as the “Feminist Movement” which consists of four different “waves.” The first one focused on women’s suffrage, the second one was during the 1960s-70s and was the most prominent one because it was when the term “feminist” was coined. The third wave was during the 90s and primarily focused on “queer theory”, the theory…

articles, Felton proposed to these white elite women that, through women’s organizations and personal endeavors, they should lobby for a higher legal age of consent for Georgia’s girls, equal education, the establishment of strict punishments for sex crimes, the requirement of marriage permits, the regulation of heredity, and a temperance decree. Felton depicted active agitation as a womanly obligation, just as she earlier represented women’s rights and advancement to be a responsibility of…