Now We Can Begin Crystal Eastman

Back in the nineteenth century men and women were not treated equally as they are now. Women did not have as much freedom as the men did and that caused a national movement. Not only were the women segregated from the men, but the discrimination against the African American race was a huge ordeal as well. With both movements combined, it led to a controversial development at that time. Not only were women fighting for equality, they were also fighting for the prejudice to end amongst the different races. The beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement and the Abolitionist Movement was not only a historic development, but it changed the world forever.

The author’s use of rhetoric and rhetorical devices is viewed as her credibility and evidence that supports the themes, feminism and birth control. “In 1910, 4 percent of Americans

There was laws made up to ban birth control because the government did not want women to be able to not to become a mother. Then this woman, Margaret Sanger, who wanted to share about birth control that was part of the new feminism. Shen decided to advertise birth control because women have rights to be able to become a mother or not to become a mother. There are a lot of jobs for a mother to do like taking care of the baby, working, cooking and other house chores. The only freedom of women has choices and decisions to have in their like earning a decision or having a baby. This document is expressing how women who become mothers sacrifice a lot to be able to have a family. (Foner,

Women were confronted by many social obligation in the late nineteenth century. Women were living lives that reflected their social rank. They were expected to be economically dependent and legally inferior. No

Then, she wrote the essay “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” in order to talk about women and those elements that were ignored: race, sexuality, class, and age. By a patriarchal world, women need a freedom, which allows them to be by active, not in order to be used by passive. White feminists have educated themselves in the past many years, and then how about women of color? As women, there are no differences, so those who are differences need to learn how to stand alone in order to seek a world in which we can all flourish. “It is learning how to take our differences and make them strength(112).” However, is the feminist education only by women could change the situation of the patriarchal

Women, like black slaves, were treated unequally from the male before the nineteenth century. The role of the women played the part of their description, physically and emotionally weak, which during this time period all women did was took care of their household and husband, and followed their orders. Women were classified as the “weaker sex” or below the standards of men in the early part of the century. Soon after the decades unfolded, women gradually surfaced to breathe the air of freedom and self determination, when they were given specific freedoms such as the opportunity for an education, their voting rights, ownership of property, and being employed.

During the late seventeenth century if a person was not a land owning single white male, they were treated horrible. This left women and slaves to be at the bottom of the totem pole. Now imagine being a woman born into slavery, this would put the woman even lower on the pole; close to being equal with dirt. However, this did not stop Sojourner Truth from fighting for women’s rights and being an abolitionist.

For every point she introduced to improve women’s rights and equality, she also gave an example of how to correct the problem. This logical presentation of her information is known as logos. Logos was used when Eastman states, “Freedom of choice in occupation and individual economic independence for women: How shall we approach this next feminist objective? First, by breaking down all remaining barriers, actual as well as legal, which make it difficult for women…” (Eastman, 9) Eastman’s initial statement was to present the problem of women being limited in the workforce. This was due to limited choices of vocational jobs and limited opportunities for advancement for women. After stating the problem, Eastman continues stating a logical resolution of how to fix the issue. By consistently using inductive language, the reader is persuaded to support her arguments throughout her work. Eastman was successful in conveying her point because it flowed in a logical manner. She did this by presenting the problem and then the solution to assist in political and economic change.

Margaret Sanger’s argument is about birth control. She wants to get out women’s stories so that people can see genuine reasons why women are for the Birth Control Movement. What she uses to support her argument is strong evidence to get the people that are not for the Birth Control movement to see the real problem. Though there may be many with true knowledge about what women with so many children go through, there must be a handful who may be blinded by their religious beliefs or other reasons. Even today we see this huge controversy about abortion and we see those who are strongly against it refer to abortion as murder. Even though things are different in today’s world with just about everything, people still feel strongly about the situation in general. I thought I was against this, but I belonged to the group of people who made a decision based on my limited knowledge and what I vaguely think is right or wrong. Sanger even brings up that it is a “type of slavery.” She brings up solid points and follows them with real life examples. These are teenage mothers that she is talking about or women who became mothers in their teen years. As she tries to continue what she considers a battle, she also voices in from abstinent couples. She uses a letter written to her about a couple who had to become abstinent because it was basically a matter of life or death for the woman. She has several women contacting her for help puts her in a position where she feels she has to reach the public, as she sees how the number of women ask her for help increases, she sees this is something the rest need to see. It is too big of a problem for people to continue to say that it is just a matter of it being wrong. It is true when she says that it is a disgrace to American ideals and constitution which guarantees to every citizen the right to life, liberty, and the pursue of happiness (Sanger 202).

The revolutionary war brought many struggles to the lives of many women. Many of these women were known as Red-Coats while others actually fought in the war. Most of these women took small steps towards freedom, some were achieved, but they were still considered inferior to men. There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested, that bears with tremendous effect on the laboring class, and indeed on almost all who are obligate to earn a subsistence, whether it be by mental or physical exertion—I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and of women. (Doc 8-8 Grimke) Even though many of these women have helped change standing in society by inspiring other women, it has helped them obtain equal rights in the 1920s.

Women have been fighting for equality since the early 1700’s. Abigail Adams was one of the first advocates to bring up the topic in Massachusetts on March 31st. (5-1) Abigail writes a letter in response to her husband John Adams. In her letter she tells her husband to “Remember the ladies” when drawing a new federal government. Another case of equality came about in the early 1800’s with Deborah Sampson. Sampson pretended to be a man named Robert Shutlif and was shot twice in the Revolutionary War. (5-9) At the time of the Revolutionary War women were consider to be inferior to men. Even the first ladies had a number of privileges they could not receive because they were female. The Revolutionary War increased people 's attention to political things and made issues of liberty and equality very important. During the time of the Revolutionary War people began rethinking of the rules for society which also led to some reconsideration of the relationship between men and women. In the North, where states abolished slavery after the Revolution, black women attained rights to marry, to have custody of their children, and to own their own property. Only on paper they had the same rights as white women. In the Southern states, lawmakers continued to reject enslaved women these simple human rights. But even in the South, a larger number of freed black women enjoyed the same privileges under the law as white women.

In the mid to late 1700's, the women of the United States of America had practically no rights. When they were married, the men represented the family, and the woman could not do anything without consulting the men. Women were expected to be housewives, to raise their children, and thinking of a job in a factory was a dream that was never thought impossible. But, as years passed, women such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Blackwell began to question why they were at home all day raising the children, and why they did not have jobs like the men. This happened between the years of 1776 and 1876, when the lives and status of Northern middle-class woman was changed forever. Women began to

The history in the 1800s was really rough then now days because they had the Nez Perce war going on and at the same time, we had problems with woman not being able to vote, and the Immigrants were all looking for jobs. As I said earlier about women not being able to vote was a big step back for woman, not so much for men as they didn’t want women to vote. As the author said in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights”(w.i.t.p.n.). Woman were treated imperfect towards men all because they were a different gender, which is unacceptable back in the 1840s and would be now if it happened because we should all be treated the the same and have the same rights. As it says in the text “In order to earn revenue from their land

The origin of women’s liberation began in the 18th century with the World‘s Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 where delegates Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were attending with ones husbands in London (McMillen, 2008). The credential committee ruled that women were unfit for public and business meetings (McMillen, 2008). The ladies were moved to a segregated area which

The slave women's choices in life were not limited to her happiness, but she had to think about her children. A mother had different responsibilities that she had to deal with. By having to deal with sexual abuse and thinking about children women were less able to leave their chains and people behind. According to Deborah Gray White in "Aren't I a Women?","...for those fugitive women who left children in slavery, the physical relief which freedom brought was limited compensation for the anguish they suffered."(White.62)