Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Women's Rights Movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
HIS 132-IC1: Rogowski
Darin Aldridge
May 6, 2011 Throughout history, struggles have defined groups of people and focused their resolve to alter the course of human history. For women, the early trials seemed insurmountable, but with the birth of a single female, woman acquired an advocate and spokesperson who would forge a new and fiery path for the women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a remarkable woman who from an early age recognized and despised the patriarchal society which heaped inequality and servitude upon woman. As a matter of fact, she realized that woman had fewer rights than the previously reviled black man. Stanton spent her life changing the perceptions and imposed …show more content…
This is not to say that they ended communication; they took a much deserved respite. The Stantons had become strapped for cash since they hoped to college educate each of their children. Elizabeth Stanton started lecturing and touring to earn money for the educational expenses. Anthony kept busy writing her own arguments for suffrage and making (some unwanted) appearances at rallies and conventions. Thus, Anthony became synonymous with the women’s movement post-amendments. By the early 1880s, Stanton weary of lecturing returned home to begin work on another book. She toiled so fervently that her daughter whisked Elizabeth away to Europe after its completion. “In the practical world of suffrage politics, there had already seemed less and less room for Stanton’s explosive ideas, her sweeping agenda, her blistering rhetoric. She was frankly bored with the dreary business of building a suffrage organization, disliked the endless round of conventions and petition campaigns and testifying before mostly heedless legislators, and was eager to meet new people, investigate new issues” (Ward, Burns, Dexter, and Dubois …show more content…
She fought for every woman. Whether it was a neighborhood drunk or a sexist politician, Stanton was equipped and ready with a forked tongue and disarming wit. She took no prisoners in her mission of female advancement and empowerment. From the beginning to the end of her life, Elizabeth Cady Stanton railed against the misconceptions of female aptitude, lectured against inequality and sexism in society, and advocated for the rights and issues of all women. Women and men alike owe Stanton a debt of gratitude for evening the playing field and making America a more civilized country in which to
HIS 132-IC1: Rogowski
Darin Aldridge
May 6, 2011 Throughout history, struggles have defined groups of people and focused their resolve to alter the course of human history. For women, the early trials seemed insurmountable, but with the birth of a single female, woman acquired an advocate and spokesperson who would forge a new and fiery path for the women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a remarkable woman who from an early age recognized and despised the patriarchal society which heaped inequality and servitude upon woman. As a matter of fact, she realized that woman had fewer rights than the previously reviled black man. Stanton spent her life changing the perceptions and imposed …show more content…
This is not to say that they ended communication; they took a much deserved respite. The Stantons had become strapped for cash since they hoped to college educate each of their children. Elizabeth Stanton started lecturing and touring to earn money for the educational expenses. Anthony kept busy writing her own arguments for suffrage and making (some unwanted) appearances at rallies and conventions. Thus, Anthony became synonymous with the women’s movement post-amendments. By the early 1880s, Stanton weary of lecturing returned home to begin work on another book. She toiled so fervently that her daughter whisked Elizabeth away to Europe after its completion. “In the practical world of suffrage politics, there had already seemed less and less room for Stanton’s explosive ideas, her sweeping agenda, her blistering rhetoric. She was frankly bored with the dreary business of building a suffrage organization, disliked the endless round of conventions and petition campaigns and testifying before mostly heedless legislators, and was eager to meet new people, investigate new issues” (Ward, Burns, Dexter, and Dubois …show more content…
She fought for every woman. Whether it was a neighborhood drunk or a sexist politician, Stanton was equipped and ready with a forked tongue and disarming wit. She took no prisoners in her mission of female advancement and empowerment. From the beginning to the end of her life, Elizabeth Cady Stanton railed against the misconceptions of female aptitude, lectured against inequality and sexism in society, and advocated for the rights and issues of all women. Women and men alike owe Stanton a debt of gratitude for evening the playing field and making America a more civilized country in which to