1. Analyzing Seneca Falls
The Seneca Falls convention addressed a broad spectrum of issues, including women's economic position, legal status, occupational possibilities, educational opportunities, familial roles, and political disenfranchisement. (Barbara Epstein, The Politics of Domesticity, pg. 80-81) After 1848, numerous women's rights conventions were held in various locations until the Civil War. The conventions disseminated and popularized ideas about women's rights through the network provided by the abolitionist movement and by the female antislavery societies in particular. At the same time that it facilitated the spread of these ideas, the abolitionist movement inhibited the development of women's right organizations by providing an existing organizational network. Hence, the abolitionist movement nurtured emergent women's rights ideology while constricting women's independent organizational development. (Brownmiller, In our Time, pg. 65-67) As a result, no major women's rights organizations or associations were formed despite a dozen years of agitation leading up to the Civil War.
This organizational time lag revives the dilemma of defining social movements and thereby dating their origins. If movements are defined on the basis of distinct sentiments, then the women's movement may be dated from early to mid-1840s. If movements are defined on the basis of networks of people acting on distinct sentiments, then the women's movement may be dated from the series of women's rights conventions initiated at Seneca Falls in 1848 and continuing over the next twelve years. If movements are defined on the basis of independent movement organizations, however, then the women's movement must be dated from the formation of the national woman suffrage organizations, which appeared only after the Civil War. (Myra Marx, Controversy and Coalition, pg. 23-24) .
The emergence of an organizationally independent women's rights movement is the final chapter in the long history of the relations between the antislavery and women's rights causes.
Women earned their rights through a movement that was started at the Seneca Falls convention. ... Some these groups were Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women and Quaker meetings just to name a few. During the 1840's Mott was appointed as one of six women to participate in the World's Anti-Slavery Convention which was to be held in England. ... According to fordham.edu (1998) "The Declaration of the Seneca Falls Convention, using the model of the US Declaration of Independence, forthrightly demanded that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respect...
The birth of women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention. ... This would be the start of what would lead to the Seneca Falls Convention. (Huth 1) Now before we go into the Seneca Falls Convention itself, let us discuss the women involved. ... (Huth 1) Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the next main woman involved in the Seneca Falls Convention. ... Mott was visiting her before they met in Seneca Falls. ...
The birthplace of American feminism was Seneca Falls, New York in 1948, at a landmark convention. These women's rights activists gathered for one primary goal. They wanted voting rights for women. Some where around mid 1960's the seed of oppression was scattered among other unhappy women. It start...
Six days later at the "Women's Convention" in Seneca Falls, New York a historic meeting took place that would change the face of history. The convention at Seneca Falls main objective was to battle the discriminations against women. ... That day at Seneca Falls one hundred men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments, and 72 years later in 1920, the 19th amendment was signed giving women the right to vote. ... Though it seemed that women have come a long way since Seneca Falls over a hundred years ago, it was not until 1984 that a woman ran (unsuccessfully) for vice president of ...
The Convention that ensued near the home of Stanton was the Seneca Falls Convention. It took place Seneca Falls, New York (www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm). ... Anthony started her involvement in the Women's Rights Movement when she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention. ... After they were refused the seats at the convention Mott decided that they needed to hold a convention for women. She traveled to Seneca Falls, New York where Stanton was holding the famous Seneca Falls Convention. ...
The first serious proposal in the United States to letting women vote was in July, 1848 at a the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, which was held and started by a women named Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. One of the women that had appeared at the convention won a vote throughout the nation in 1920. Her name was Charlotte Woodward at the time of this convention she was only 19. She was also the only one that attended the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention that lived to cast her vote; she was 81 years old and proud. ...
In 1906, her health failing, Anthony addressed her last womens's suffrage convention. 14 years after Anthony's death, the 19th amendment was added to the Constitution. 1995 marks the 75th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution, giving women the right to vote. A resolution calling for woman suffrage was passed, after years and much debate, at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. ... The women of seneca Falls had challanged America to social revolution with a list of demands ...
In 1847 Stanton moved to Seneca Falls. ... On Wednesday July 19th and Thursday July 20th at 10:00 a.m. in Seneca Falls, the first Women's Rights Convention was held. ... One hundred men and women signed their name to the Seneca Falls Declaration. ... A few days after the Convention in Seneca Falls, there was a meeting in Rochester, which was full of ridicule and sarcasm. ... Anthony on a street corner in Seneca Falls. ...