The Work of 19th Century Feminists

In the 19th century, America was the place for men only, especially Caucasians. To be a woman in the 19th century means that someone's property, responsibility, and impossible to decide on your own are impossible. The 19th century feminist began to question the laws and regulations advocated by the government at the time. They started talking about quoting the Bible, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. "We are citizens of white men rather than us, we make citizens, not us, but we all formed this alliance" (Anthony 41).

The first wave of the so-called feminist movement started in the mid-nineteenth century and continued until the 19 th revision was adopted in 1920, giving women the right to vote. The first wave of white middle-class feminists, such as Elizabeth Caddy Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, from the 19th century to the early 20th century are the women's voting rights (voting rights), crackdown on legal provisions, He focused on acquiring profits. Education and Employment These goals are commonly seen in Seneca Falls Emotional Declaration, the final document of the 1848 US Women's Rights Conference.

Historians define the first wave of feminism from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The first wave of feminist movement focuses on fundamental political rights such as voting rights, economic rights such as the right to possess property other than her husband, rights to education and employment, and more equitable marriage law It was. The second wave of exercise began in the 1960's. The second wave focuses on employment and reproductive rights. During this period several famous laws such as the Equal Wage Act on Equal Employment, Chapter 7 of the Civil Rights Act prohibit sex discrimination in employment and Article 9 prohibits discrimination in education. Griswold vs. Connecticut Supreme Court decision on childbirth management and breakthrough decisions on low versus Wade's abortion greatly expanded female reproductive rights.

The abortion prevention law enacted in the latter part of the 19th century was the result of the feminist advocacy activities, and these feminists were in an alluring relationship with male dominant medical circles and mainstream media. Early feminists, like today, understand that women are aborted due to abortion, abandoned by boyfriends, husbands, parents, under stress, lacking economic resources to own their children did. The recent goal of abortion by the now led female movement will anger the early feminist. What Elizabeth Kaddy Stanton called "disgusting and insulting crime" has been foreseen as "the most basic right" by president, now president, president of the present feminist foundation, Eleanor Smel.