Essays on Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Speaking Truth to Power: A Rhetorical Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Our forefathers’ proclamation in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” has held little value in the eyes of the countless citizens belonging to oppressed groups. The years following the summer of 1776 and the social inequalities that we as a…

I could not imagine my mother, grandmother or sister not being allowed to vote, because they are female. Before the nineteen hundreds, woman were not allowed to vote, mostly white men. Congress took a stand against gender discrimination and passed laws that allowed women to have the same rights as men to vote. This law…

Are adult females truly inferior to work forces? Of class non, but this is the mentality that has been a portion of the universe since the beginning. For a long clip, even adult females did non believe that they measured up to work forces. In her book Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen wrote, “A adult females,…

Women fought so they would be able to vote in the elections. The Women’s Suffrage movement started in 1848. Suffragists are people, mainly women who advocate for women’s rights. For years, women’s suffrage supporters continued to educate anyone about the importance of women’s suffrage. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other suffragists distributed petitions…