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Even though Anne Hutchinson grew up in a time when women were treated as if they were beneath men, she was able to speak her mind. She opened the eyes of other women by letting them know that they have a voice and can be heard. Anne Hutchinson was a strong, bold woman of the early 1600s, who stood up for what she believed in and challenged male authority. She went against the Puritan orthodoxy and became a threat to the sate of Massachusetts. Hutchinson was an individualist (16) who held discussions about the sermons from the puritan church; the discussions led to criticism. Although “women were not considered fit to teach men,”(16) males did participate in her discussions. After her death, John Winthrop described her as an “American Jezebel” (23).

The 1800s opened the door for women to be given a little respect. Women’s rights were a re

Women such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman voiced their opinions of sexual discrimination in their writings. Perkins “argued that the legal, social, and political subordination of women was the result of their economic dependence on men” (p 240). She believed industrial society produced opportunities for economic independence for women (p 240); all they had to do was seize them.

The Seneca Falls meeting was the first emergence of the woman’s rights movement. It produced a “Declaration of Independence for women,” which stated, “All men and women are created equal.” During the mid 1800s, women were given a couple of simple rights: “the right to keep wages and for married women to maintain control over property” (p 164). A few professions were even opened to women. Although women were given these privileges, very few were still opened for them.

“The Mosher Report,” by Kathryn Jacob, credits the process of modernization for the change in women’s lives. “Economic developments- the rise of factories, the mass production of consumer goods, and changes in occupational op

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