Prejudice And Racism Against Females In The 1700's

In the 1900’s it was a social accepted practice to believe one’s gender restricted what an individual was cable of doing. During this time period and going back further in the past the main ideology of society was males were there to lead, provide and protect the fairer sex. Susan Glaspell uses stereotypes to disprove the notion that women are less superior than their male counterparts by having the women solve the murder of Mr. John Wright.

During the colonial times, men expected women to follow strict rules. Women could not cross certain boundaries in society, so they silently obeyed the rules that were provided before them. They had not have a public voice and had to follow certain restrictions. It was hard being a woman in the colonial times mostly due to the unequal rights and practices that were used. Women were expected to dress and act a certain way, or they would be disowned or punished. Disobeying was not taken lightly for the puritans and punishing those who disobey was mandatory. Women struggled with everyday life of obeying their fathers or husbands. Women were separated from men in categories such as jobs and responsibilities. They were told to stay inside the house and maintain the family all day. Women were labeled as weak and fragile through a man’s eyes. Women had standards that they had to follow in order to live a successful life, according to the puritans.

From housewives to educated intellectuals, the roles of women in society have evolved throughout the years. Factors such as wealth, status did affect their roles in the 1700s, but overall every woman had their own place in society. The line between male and female was very distinctive. Substantial events such as the American Revolution, played a big role in modifying gender roles. Women impacted the war in great ways. They proved their capability in more than just being basic housewives. Their heroic activity all the way through the war led them both into an adequate and better off state.

The acknowledgment of the rights of women have transformed the conversation about rape within America over the last fifty years. However well before feminism was able to have considerable affect on America’s judicial and political landscape, women had to risk their wellbeing for both the right to have premarital sex as well as obtain justice when their consent wasn’t given. In the seventeenth century, this risk was even greater when it included individuals of color. The Puritans, the founders of New Haven, determined that all sexual relations exceeding what God permitted were to be met with confession and a matched punishment for both involved parties. Then as the influence of England’s secular, legal system began to insert itself within the community, the equality that characterized prosecutions in the seventeenth century was replaced with elements of racial and gender disservice. Yet although the judicial system of colonial America would become increasingly prejudiced against white women in regards to their sexual activities, the complete removal of consent from interracial sex made sexual expression for people of color a dangerous act.

Today the equality between men and woman is closer then it ever has before in history, with women CEO’s and stay at home dads. This happened because of the strong woman in history fighting for the same rights as man, private property, creative freedom, and the power to use their intellect. Virginia Woolf is one of those ladies arguing that, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She believes that women are locked in some sort of intellectual prison and not being able to have money or privacy keeps them locked, unable to blossom intellectually.

During the 1920’s the KKK displayed a strong power of continuity over the power of aberration. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Black Exclusion Act of 1849 began the use of prejudice and intolerances within the Pacific Northwest. The KKK used those Acts as a step and sustained the route. Throughout time the KKK definitely exemplified the use of exclusion, nativism, xenophobia, racism, and colonization. The list of people and or traits one had often exceeded what was viewed as wholesome. The pre-existing Act’s provided an area for the KKK to flourish along with the common white mans participation in the government and guidelines. In Oregon we have quite the diverse community, however, there is a lack of cultural diversity here compared

Many would believe such statement to be true, “we live in a men’s world”. This is a similar occurrence in the story of Laura Secord. Mrs. Secord lived at a time were men are the dominate species and they were consider to be “breadwinners” whereas females were expected to be the caregivers. Sarah Anne Curzon is the author of “The Heroine of 1812”, that beautifully relates the bravery of Mrs. Secord and the obstacles she faces as a female living in the 1800`s. This paper will illustrate the prejudice against females in the 1800`s and the discrimination females face in today`s society.

The article is based on discrimination and wants to get rid of the whole idea of it. The news writer did a lot of research due to her knowing information from the 1800's, she also did a report on an event that happened on Donald Trump's Tuesday news conferences. This article is supposed to be for all humans old enough to see and recognize discrimination within their own community or their city. Reading this article may help with pointing out what discrimination really is. Lexington's article is different from Chapman's because of his focus being on violence instead of discrimination. This article illuminates the idea of discrimination because it talks about being against equality and inclusion.

We are not born racist, rather, we are taught racism, creating societal dilemmas. It is an attitude established by one’s feeling of superiority or one who feels that someone “different” from them is inferior. During the Reconstruction period, the idea that equality among blacks and whites could be obtained was short-lived and as years passed it became increasingly clear. It did not deliver on equality. Instead, it birthed the idea of separate, but equal and used as a way to stunt the growth of African-American people. As racism in the 1920’s heightened, there was no contrasting difference living in the north than living in the south. Ossian Sweet, a man born in the south faced numerous adversities as he strives for a more desirable way of living.

In the early 1800’s, the disparate treatment of men and women was drastic. Women had a very limited amount of rights and not much of a chance to exercise them either. Voting, suing others, and testifying in court were all strictly verboten (Hill 1). In marriage, all their formerly owned property was surrendered to their husbands or given back to their fathers. Women were also forbidden to call a divorce and were forced down into staying in the marriage. In the rare case of a divorce, women could not claim custody over their children or any other possessions that, prior to the marriage belonged to them (“Women in the Nineteenth Century: Introduction”). Women were expected to always be subservient to their husbands and listen to their every order

Woman in the early days weren’t considered the luckiest people. Although they faced a lot of discrimination due to gender, they did have few rights. “During the 1920s, the amount of working woman had actually increased by 25 percent.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/usa/1920srev2.shtml . Women were also given rights to vote and they were known as flappers.

1941, Japan hit the U.S. naval base in the pacific ocean with bombs, crippling the U.S. 20,000 U.S. citizens with Japanese ancestors were locked up for over 3 years. Children, parents, grandparents were put into internment camps, later relocated to Santa Anita Racetrack (Lewis 7). There were many causes that created this “grave injustice,” but along the way there were also opportunities to avert the abuse of rights.

In colonial America, certain groups of people, specifically women and people of color, had to face societal struggles, such as discrimination. Discrimination can be based on many different characteristics—age, gender, weight, ethnicity, religion, or even politics. For example, prejudice and discrimination based on race is called racism. Oftentimes, gender prejudice or discrimination is referred to as sexism. Discrimination is often the outcome of prejudice, a preformed negative judgment or attitude. General well-being, self-esteem, self-worth, and social relations can be severely impacted in a negative way as a result of discrimination. Unfortunately, this obstacle still exists in our society today, but it is definitely not as severe as it was back in colonial American times. This idea that many times, certain groups in society are discriminated against due to their race, gender, appearance, etc. is a theme that is expressed in the early American texts, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, and “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley.

Woolf believes that women are different from men both in their social history as well as inherently, and that each of these differences has had important effects on the development of women 's writing.

Living in a society where there is discrimination into gender make it hard for one to live. Gender inequality, or in other words, gender judgement refers to unfair rights or privileges women deprived regarding men based on different gender roles which leads to unequal treatment in the society. Woolf's central argument about Shakespeare’s sister is that women could have never created great poetry like Shakespeare back in the time for many reasons such as, women would not have the right as men had in that period, they would not have the same education as men, and they would not have been supported at all by the society they were living. Obviously, the opportunities for women were limited.