History of Feminism
Related: About this forumTwo paragraphs from Man Cannot Speak for Her, Volume I, by K.K. Campbell.
Disclaimer: I typed this by hand, so mistakes or strange sentences are most likely my fault, as opposed to the author's fault.
I underlined the sentence that I personally found most interesting, and is my reason for posting.
Woman's rights agitation was in large measure a byproduct of women's efforts in other reform movements. Women seeking to end slavery, to attack the evils of alcohol abuse, and to improve the plight of prostitutes found themselves excluded from male reform organizations and attacked for involving themselves in concerns outside the home. A distinctive woman's rights movement began when women reformers recognized that they had to work for their own rights before they could be effective in other reform efforts.
Many early woman's rights advocates began as abolitionists, but because they were excluded from participation in the male anti-slavery societies, they formed female anti-slavery societies and ultimately, as chapter 2 describes, they began to press for their own rights in order to be more effective in the abolitionist struggle (Hersh 1978). Both Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton dated the beginnings of the woman's rights movement from 1840, the year when five female delegates from U.S. anti-slavery societies, one of whom was Coffin Mott, were refused seating ath the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The outrage they felt at the debate that culminated in the denial of women's participation in the convention fueled their decision to call a woman's rights convention, a decision that eventuated in the Seneca Fall, New York, convention of 1848. Because the struggle to abolish slavery was so closely related to the earliest efforts for woman's rights, and because female abolitionists' speeches show them struggling to find ways to cope with proscriptions against speaking, the next chapter analyzes this connection. and the texts by abolitionist women are included in volume II.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)this one, i knew.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Perhaps I was just being a bit slow.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)we knew or not. or what is going to jolt us to higher insight.
there is so much i do not know. i was thrillled i knew this.
i think though this is the experience with women and why it is a womans movement looking to promote only womens interest. this has been from the beginning. with civil rights also
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)I wish you were taking it with me. I could use an enthusiastic study partner.
Move to Montana real quick and sign up for the class!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i should do that. i should take some classes just for fun. but, i do not do well with groups of people. kinda not social.
i would have never pictured you in that state.
colo, wy, mo, wa, or oregon for me.
dballance
(5,756 posts)to maybe be able to be more effective for a period because they could do things like help run the Underground Railroad right under the men's noses? The men assuming the delicate sensitivities of women wouldn't allow them to do such things?
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Underestimating people does cause some degree of blindness.
dballance
(5,756 posts)And how Chicken George was really a very intelligent man but played the ignorant slave around the white masters by changing his grammar and his mannerisms. I think some appropriately crafty women could have done something similar.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)even when they had evidence and women being "soft hearted" men really never caught onto it. that mystique, lol.
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)I hate it when I type out from off- line sources, but there's much to share so sometimes i do it anyway and I thank you for the effort.
Pretty cool stand out sentence