National Women's Rights Convention

engaging in a masculine activity such as football” (Lind, 2004.) Conti uses a study by Halberstam from 1998 to explain the different variations of females presenting themselves in gender identities not norm to the public. These “alternate masculinities range from tomboys to drag kings,” he explains (Lind, 2004.) He uses this explanation to show that assertions of masculinity does not solely belong to men and can be legitimately experienced by all sexes. “This is something even the most liberal…

women politically, for this era was known as the “Women Suffrage Movement”. Women all around the nation fought for the right to vote, a distinct privilege for citizens, so they were ultimately fighting for an active citizenship in the United States. Through protesting, campaigning, and working masculine jobs while the me were fighting in World War I, women were given their right to vote by the ratification of the 19th Amendment. This amendment was an enormous change for the value of the female…

World War had a greater effect on the lives of women in Canada because the Canadian Women’s Army Corps was established, women got heavily involved…

condemn it as a sin. The second great awakening also changed women. The women started creating all these different religious societies because they did not have rights anywhere else. The women could not vote so this left them doing things at church which led women to fighting for suffrage and their rights later on. This created the women’s right group. The Second Great Awakening brought many different changes in American…

gained knowledge of rights women have gained over the last decade while in my American Women Rights course. Women have not always been able to succeed in politics because of a barrier stopping them from doing so. This is better known as a glass ceiling, “a physical barrier that hinders a woman from rising to a high-level position. Women have gone through a lot in the past few years when it comes to their political rights. From marching for the right to vote to fighting for the right to holding…

During Florence Kelley speech before the convection of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, she announces to the government that child labor laws in the south are too severe for young kids to handle. In her speech she uses an amount of imagery to send a sort of emotion to her crowd, and also uses questions to make her audience think about what she’s talking about in her speech. She uses this tactic to make her crowd feel sympathy, in order for her…

harassment. It happened again, and she still cannot get the justice that she deserve. Eventually, in 2013, she bring her complaint to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. The local newspaper cover it, she got lots of disagreed and unsupported comment. She was “devastated and nearly gave up the fight”. After 5 years fighting, she won the right to a new investigation. Even though Liane is skilled in pathos, her use of pathos seems still a bit of weak since her ethos is weak too. The writer is…

History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement consisting of four parts. This documentary provides a sense of the growing unrest of the Chicano population, their evolution and the power of mass action. Through the documentary, we learn that the movement begins with Tijerina in New Mexico…

Who is the Intended Audience of the documents? - The audience of Abigail Adams letter was to the females. She wanted to tell John Adams “not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence. Many women’s in the late 1700s didn’t have many rights as the men do. Abigail Adams wrote the letter to inform her husband, that…

Davion Walker-Hall History 2300 Prof.Moore Abigail and John Adams on Women and the American Revolution This started March 31, 1776, the wife of John Adams, Abigail Adams who’s a strong advocate of women’s rights. Writes a letter to John stating for him and other members of the Continental Congress to not forget about the women fighting for America for whatever new law they may create. Because she felt that the nation should recognize women more than just property. She wanted John to not enforce…