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Women have found power in a variety of ways though out history in their struggle towards justice and equality. Though personal power can take many forms this paper will primarily focus on power found through gender solidarity, class issues, race or sexuality. I intend to examine the ways in which three different women, of different races and times in history, were able to find such power resulting in a positive change to either their own lives or the lives of others. Those women are: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt and Melba Beals.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton found power through gender solidarity. She was a true feminist concerned with not just suffrage but total equality for the sexes. Her Declaration of Sentiments brilliantly …show more content…
Women have found power in a variety of ways though out history in their struggle towards justice and equality. Though personal power can take many forms this paper will primarily focus on power found through gender solidarity, class issues, race or sexuality. I intend to examine the ways in which three different women, of different races and times in history, were able to find such power resulting in a positive change to either their own lives or the lives of others. Those women are: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt and Melba Beals.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton found power through gender solidarity. She was a true feminist concerned with not just suffrage but total equality for the sexes. Her Declaration of Sentiments brilliantly transformed the words of men who sought freedom from their oppressors into words of women seeking the same. Presenting her political position by using a document that the men of that time held sacred and solemnly believed in, the Declaration of Independence, as a template was an ingenious way to open those men’s eyes and gain their empathy toward her cause. Furthermore, her Declaration of Sentiments “provided a model for future woman’s rights conventions” (Kerber 260). Stanton eventually became president of the National Women’s Suffrage Association; a group that men were permitted to join as members but could never be granted access to a leadership role. Stanton’s contributions to women’s rights are too numerous to outline but all of them were
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