Women's Rights In The 1800s
During the mid and late 1800’s the Antebellum Era took place, including the American reform movement. At this time women were deeply focused on getting equal rights as far as expanding education, jobs, and the right to vote. Around this time period slavery was also heavily practiced. In this essay I will share with you how women went about fighting for their rights and promoting their rights. In the early 1800’s was the women’s right movement, but not only that there was also the abolitionist movement. Abolitionists were people who wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. The same women who were fighting for equal rights were the same ones who were abolitionists. They believed that all humans deserved equal rights because they were moral
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Usually agreed upon by majority middle and upper-class white women in the United States and Great Britain. The cult of domesticity is exactly the opposite of women’s right movement, it was said to be how an ideal should be which includes taking care of the house, children, her husband; she was supposed to remain pure and obedient. I believe this was made simply because these women were upper-class so they didn’t have the worries of the lower-class, immigrants or slaves.There were many obstacles that women faced all the while trying to gain equal rights. There were worries such as family values being ruined, fear of losing women’s femininity, and women not being smart enough. People thought that family values would be ruined because the woman of the house would no longer be they typical woman she used to be before being granted rights. Assumptions made that giving women equal rights would change the role structures in a household. Assuming they mean women would be more aggressive, shamelessly speak her mind and take charge in different aspects which women do none of those things. This also goes along with the fear of losing femininity, for example entering the world of politics women would have to be more rough, they their “natural” roles as a women would be undermined. Another problem was women were seen as not smart enough, not just by men by women also; this would mean it wouldn’t be smart to have them vote because they do not have a high education, so
Usually agreed upon by majority middle and upper-class white women in the United States and Great Britain. The cult of domesticity is exactly the opposite of women’s right movement, it was said to be how an ideal should be which includes taking care of the house, children, her husband; she was supposed to remain pure and obedient. I believe this was made simply because these women were upper-class so they didn’t have the worries of the lower-class, immigrants or slaves.There were many obstacles that women faced all the while trying to gain equal rights. There were worries such as family values being ruined, fear of losing women’s femininity, and women not being smart enough. People thought that family values would be ruined because the woman of the house would no longer be they typical woman she used to be before being granted rights. Assumptions made that giving women equal rights would change the role structures in a household. Assuming they mean women would be more aggressive, shamelessly speak her mind and take charge in different aspects which women do none of those things. This also goes along with the fear of losing femininity, for example entering the world of politics women would have to be more rough, they their “natural” roles as a women would be undermined. Another problem was women were seen as not smart enough, not just by men by women also; this would mean it wouldn’t be smart to have them vote because they do not have a high education, so