Another example is in "The Trial of Anne Hutchinson." Anne Hutchinson organized meetings for women where the church sermons were repeated and discussed, sometimes even challenged. ... Without firing a shot, throwing a rock, or issuing a personal threat, women won for themselves rights that men have launched violent rebellions to achieve. ...
She possesses little faith in the idea of women ever having the opportunity to openly express themselves through writing, as men regard the act as a threat to their domination. ... In order to enforce a safeguard against this threat is by manipulating women into believing a consistently reinforced idea: "Good breeding, fashion, dancing, dressing and play/ Are the accomplishments we should desire;/ To write, or read, or think, or to enquire/ Would cloud our beauty, and exhaust our time;/ And interrupt the conquests of our prime; - (14-8). ... Works Cited Finch, Anne (Lady Winchelsea). ...
