How Did Women Gain Their Rights In The 19th Century
Each generation has its minority that is loudly fighting for change. For example, today it seems that everywhere we turn, there is another news story about the struggle for gay and lesbian rights, whether it's about tax equality, military service, or the right to marry. 150 years ago, it was an even larger portion of the population's turn: women. Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, women fought for equal rights under the law and most importantly the right to vote. During the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution transformed life in Britain and in other countries in Europe and North America. By the end of the country, life was becoming more and more comfortable for most women. Some of the powerful methods to have a voice that would be undoubtedly heard was writing, this form was applied not only by Mary
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This essay will examine how women gain their rights, which writers, organizations, men and events helped them to conquer what we today have guaranteed and it was so hard for them to accomplish. Feminism Feminist ideas and social movements emerged in Europe, Great Britain, and the United States in an international environment that encouraged the migration of people and ideas across nationwide borders. Between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) and John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women (1869) ideas, social movements, and individual feminists travelled across land and sea, creating a powerful new context for the improvement of women’s rights. These documents illuminate that process. In this era, the terms women’s rights and women’s emancipation were widely used to refer to what we today would call feminism. Although the term feminist did not appear until the late nineteenth century in France and somewhat later in Great Britain, the U.S. and other
This essay will examine how women gain their rights, which writers, organizations, men and events helped them to conquer what we today have guaranteed and it was so hard for them to accomplish. Feminism Feminist ideas and social movements emerged in Europe, Great Britain, and the United States in an international environment that encouraged the migration of people and ideas across nationwide borders. Between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) and John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women (1869) ideas, social movements, and individual feminists travelled across land and sea, creating a powerful new context for the improvement of women’s rights. These documents illuminate that process. In this era, the terms women’s rights and women’s emancipation were widely used to refer to what we today would call feminism. Although the term feminist did not appear until the late nineteenth century in France and somewhat later in Great Britain, the U.S. and other