The Influence Of Women's Rights: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In the late Nineteenth century, women were beginning to become more progressive in their actions. They began to stand up for themselves and fight for their rights. In the late 1850’s, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the more prominent women to do so. She worked with Susan B. Anthony to deliver a majority of the population the rights that they rightfully deserved. Her actions are important in the United States’ History because they helped to encourage women to form the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Many Scholars have written about her, but simply with a different lens of focus. For example, they have written about her use of the bicycle in her campaign and her unique stance on religion. It is important to continue studying her actions because the issues she was fighting for back then, such as: the abolition of capital punishment, and an end to police brutality, are still issues today. Perhaps if the people of the United States today collectively took after her intrepid and forward thinking attitude in life, there could be more positive change in this country.

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First and foremost, the fight for women’s rights is something that has occurred throughout time not only in the United States, but in every part of the world. When it comes to the United States, one cannot deny that it was an important historical event. “The struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States had occupied better part of a century” (Source 1). Truly a struggle, for it was not acknowledged by men in the past, primarily white man who had full rights in the nation. Susan B. Anthony was an important leading figure of the Suffrage Movement and contributed to the Suffrage Movement.

In the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s, women were not given the rights they have today and were being mistreated, but because of a few brave women who gave up their lives to fight for what they knew was right, this all changed. Many of these women were educated and brave, but were still denied their rights. Women have suffered through this long battle to get what they knew they deserved and took time out of their lives to fight for what they believed in, which was to have a voice. Women wanted to get the same respect that men were given. The women’s suffrage movement was not only in the United States, but it was all over the world. It took the women’s suffrage movement many years to work and come through, but women were finally able to vote and have the same rights as men. Through their work in the suffrage movement, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony and many more changed the role of women in society.

The women’s rights movement has been influenced by the words and writings of many. Two influential people in the movement include Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Abigail Adams. These women paved the way for equality across the United States of America. Without these women speaking out and advocating in their different ways, equality in the country would be much farther

During the late 19th century, women were in a society where man was dominant. Women not having natural born rights, such as the right to vote, to speak in public, access to equal education, and so forth, did not stop them to fight for their rights. Women's lives soon changed when Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony played a prominent role to help bring about change.

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most renowned women to lead campaigns for women’s rights. Her efforts were focused on "opportunities for women, for married women’s property rights, the right to divorce, and the right to custody of children; her most radical demand was for women’s right to vote" (Davidson and Wagner-Martin 845). In general Stanton wished to instill independence and self-reliance in all women. Stanton was an inspiring orator of speeches including the Declaration of Sentiments as well as the book The Women’s Bible. Upon analysis of her speeches and other works, as well as gaining knowledge of her background, one is able to assume that

Throughout their lives Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked tirelessly to bring about various social and political changes. From abolition, and temperance, to the varying long denied rights of women throughout the country; from divorce rights, guardianship of children, equal pay and control of earnings, property rights, education, to the vote. Together they created the National Women’s Suffrage Association, the Women’s State Temperance Society, the Women’s National Loyal League, wrote and published their own newspaper titled The Revolution, lectured across the country and lobbied for equal rights, with a focus on women’s rights.

Lois W. Banner is the author of "Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women 's Rights". She is also the author of many other books based on women, such as "Women in Modern America: A Brief History". Banner wrote this book in order to showcase to the world all of the situatuions that Elizabeth Cady Stanton faced and overcame. This very informative novel shows how Stanton has had doors opened for the population of women. She received her PhD at Columbia University. As a history professor at the University of Southern California, Louis W. Banner teaches on topics that include gender and sexuality and studies of women. Having strong interests in these subjects makes an important woman such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton stand out to Banner. Being that they are both women and both feminist makes Stanton even more relatable to Banner.

During the late 19th century, women were in a society where man was dominant. Women did not have natural born rights, such as the right to vote, to speak in public, access to equal education, and so forth, did not stop them to fight for their rights. Women's lives soon changed when Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony played a prominent role to help bring about change.

Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton became co leaders of the women’s rights movement in 1851. The women’s right movement was held 1848-1920 and it was held to fight for women’s suffrage. This is important because us women/girls our freedom to speak our mind and to do other things that we weren’t entitled to do. This was one of our greatest accomplishments because it made history. It helped bring awareness of how differently us women got treated and it made a BIG difference because it not only changed others views back then but it’s still making a difference now.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a woman that can be best described under a countless amount of titles. She was a women’s rights activist, feminist, editor, writer, abolitionist, and the list continues. Living in a world in which women were made to feel inferior, Stanton utilized this oppression as a catalyst for permeating into male “territory”. Fortunately for her, particular opportunities came about naturally, being that she was raised in a privileged household. Her parents were of high respect in their city, and had the means to provide their kids with formal and informal methods of education. A couple years after graduating from the Willard’s Troy Seminary in 1832, she married her husband, Henry Stanton- a fellow abolitionist and antislavery orator. Their marriage is infamous for the exclusion of “promise to obey” from the traditional vows, due to Elizabeth’s conviction that it translated in both parties not being equal to one another. Even within the confinements of marriage, fortune continued to follow Stanton in her endeavors, because through her marriage she was exposed to even larger pavements of reformation.

Women’s Rights was and still is a major issue throughout the entire world, but more specifically, in the United States of America. Women have been treated unjustly for awhile. From being beaten by their husbands, to not being able to own property if they were married, women have been through it all. Many of these situations started to change because of a group of women that decided to stand up for what they believe in. A few activists that helped improve the rights of women are Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott.

Although we think that it’s normal for People to be looked at as the same, it wasn’t always like that. Women were not treated the same as Men, they were almost like “Property.” until one day someone formed a convention for women’s rights, and her name was Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton campaigned for women’s rights. Stanton is the “great speaker” of the early women’s rights movement. Stanton helped organize the first women’s rights convention. She make a plan and introduce the first women’s rights. She also founded multiple women’s rights organization to serve as a guide or a leader of the movement. According to Southard, Stanton says that it is for understanding what drove one of our nation’s most widely and favorably known social movement leaders. “Thus, her first formal public address, “Address on Women’s Rights,” delivered in 1848, is a key text not only for understanding early women’s rights ideology, but also for understanding what drove one of our nation’s most prominent social movement leaders.”