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Episodes tagged "women's rights": 1 through 10 of 13

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  1. The Republic Woman and the public sphere in the early 1800s.
    date March 2, 1822map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Women, women's rights

    Susan Thoughtful wrote to the editor of The Euterpeiad on March 2, 1822 to ask a few simple questions about the position of men and women in the republic society. She wondered how women were considered for government positions and how it affected the ideals of marriage. Thoughful questioned for example, a woman named Elizabeth Bartlett. Since she ran for office for the Register of Deeds, Bartlett created...

  2. Angelina Grimke and Her Secular Language of Rights
    date October 2, 1837map WORCESTER, Massachusettstags Angelina Grimke, Secularism, Anti-slavery, Religion, Women, women's rights

    In 1837, Angelina Grimke authored a series of letters to Catharine Beecher on the topic of the cultural roles of women as they relate to their social, economic, and political rights. One was reprinted in Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870 by Kathryn Sklar. In the letter retitled by Sklar as, “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex,” Grimke argues that humans have rights...

  3. Chevalier and Lowell: The American Prophecy
    date 1839map MIDDLESEX, Massachusettstags Chevalier, Industrial Revolution, women's rights, Lowell

    The machine once promised humanity greatness—or so the 19th-century train of thought went. “There is nothing in the physical order of things,” wrote Michel Chevalier, “of which our race has a better right to boast, than the mechanical inventions, by means of which man holds in check the irregular vigour, or brings forth the hidden energies, of nature. By the aid of mechanical contrivances,...

  4. Charles Dickens and the Women of Lowell, Massachusetts
    date 1842map MIDDLESEX, Massachusettstags Industrial Revolution, Cotton Mills, Charles Dickens, Lowell, women's rights

    He said he wasn’t going to compare the textile factories at Lowell, Massachusetts, to the ones in his home country of England, but how could he not? After all, Charles Dickens would make it his life’s work to critique the deplorable working conditions that his fellow countrymen had to suffer through on a daily basis. “The contrast would be a strong one,” Dickens wrote in comparing Lowell to...

  5. National Women's Rights Convention: Maria Varney's letter emphasizing natural rights
    date October 20, 1850map FAIRFIELD, Connecticuttags women's rights, Politics

    On October 23, 1850 the first annual National Women’s Rights Convention commenced in Worcester Massachusetts. For two days more then a thousand women and men from eleven different states listened to speakers. The speakers emphasized the right to vote, to own property, to be admitted to higher education and to choose their occupation or profession. Newspaper reporters from all over attended, but the...

  6. National Women's Convention in Cincinnati
    date October 8, 1855map MONTGOMERY, Ohiotags women's rights, Female Unionists

    On Thursday October 8, 1855 the crowd of government and union officials at the The National Convention of Women’s Rights in Cincinnati fell silent as Lucy Stone Blackwell took the stage.  The preceding speaker Mr. Wise, had discussed gender inequality in education. Wise theorized that America was the home of a generation of “disappointed women.” who had been denied equal access to educational...

  7. Purifying the Ballots: Women’s Entrance into The Political Sphere
    date 1849 to 1868map NEW YORK, New Yorktags women's rights, Politics, voting, white women's rights, African American Sufferag

    In a society where women were becoming the majority, they still stood bounded by political and social restraints. Rather than seeing this as a setback, American women grew more aware of their limitations and demanded the right to vote. The Social Elevation of Woman, refers to a time when patriarchy was most apparent and women’s voting rights remained undervalued. Men of the early nineteenth century,...

  8. Women's Welfare Activist Records Inequalities Faced by Female Teachers
    date 1862map WASHINGTON, Vermonttags Public School, Teachers, Equal Rights, Women, Education, Powerful Women in History, Women's roles, women's rights

    During a visit to America, women's welfare activist, Emily Faithfull examined the vast inequality that existed between men and women teachers and concluded that the situation was unfortunately no better for English women. The "feminization of teaching" had just begun to evolve around the time of her visit (1862);the majority of teaching positions in America, from the colonial period to the middle of...

  9. Women Entering the Business Sphere: Analyzes The Washington Post article, "Women in Business" in comparison to Shelley's, Learning to Stand and Speak.
    date 1880 to 1881map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Careers, Business, Washington Post, Education, House, women's rights, Women

    In the late 18th to early 19th century, women began to explore their intellectual talents outside of the education field. The Washington Post (1877-1954) published an article titled Women in Business, expressing the purpose of the exhibit mounted by the League of Business and Professional Women. The goal was to help others, specifically women, appreciate their business skills and embark in professional...

  10. The Double Hip “Ironsides” Corset shapes American Women
    date 1885map NEW YORK, New Yorktags fashion, corsets, women's rights

    Victorian women liked their corsets tight.  If a person looked up and down any busy street in the late nineteenth century, they saw townswomen that struck dramatic silhouettes.  The corset, a tight fitting, boned garment, restricted movement and reshaped the natural position of organs inside a women's body.  A trade card from 1885 featured a corset typical of the period dubbed the Double Hip "Ironsides"...

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