Gloria Steinem Women's Rights Movement

In the YouTube video, “An Evening with Gloria Steinem,” which took place at Brookdale Community College in 2011, Gloria Steinem spoke about civil and human rights throughout the world, but mostly focusing on feminism and women’s rights as it related to the culture and history of Americans. Steinem did not really furnish a timetable for development of feminism in America; she vastly highlighted topical issues relating to women’s rights and humanities. She expressed how “legal identity” was the “first wave” of feminism lasting 100 years and, the “second wave” is currently happening for about some 50 years now in terms of gender and people achieving “legal social equality” status in which she believes the American society is heading. Steinem

Alice Paul empowered women all across the world to fight for women’s suffrage. Alice Paul is a brave woman who fought for what she believed in and persevere through anything that came in her way. Paul formed organizations to spread the word about women’s suffrage and to get people on board to support their cause. Alice Paul protested using many tactics such as marches, rallies, hunger strikes, and picketing outside of White House. Alice Paul is a woman who fought for women’s suffrage through the formation of organizations, assembling protests, rallies, parades and the ratification of the 19th amendment.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was, no doubt, one of the most important activists for the women’s rights movement in the nineteenth century. Not only was she the leading advocate for women’s rights, she was also the “principal philosopher” of the movement . Some even considered her the nineteenth-century equivalent of Mary Wollstonecraft, who was the primary British feminist in the eighteenth century . Stanton won her reputation of being the chief philosopher and the “most consistent and daring liberal thinker” of the women’s right movement by expounding through pamphlets, speeches, essays, newspaper and letters her feminist theory . However, despite being an ardent abolitionist during the Civil War who fought for the emancipation of all slaves , her liberal feminist theory was tainted by a marked strain of racism and elitism that became more conspicuous as she started pressing for women’s suffrage .

Passage 1 effectively develops the contribution Elizabeth Cady Stanton made to the women’s rights movement during the 1800s. Passage 2 is more of facts about her and Susan rather than how they contributed. They both tell a lot about how Elizabeth helped women’s rights. Also in passage 2 it talks about about Elizabeth had help from Susan B Anthony. So passage 1 defiantly was better at showing how Elizabeth contributed to women’s rights.

Abigail Scott Duniway Woman’s suffrage in the Pacific Northwest is something taken for granted these days. Women were not always able to vote; at least, not before a select group of women stood up for what they thought was right. Abigail Scott Duniway was one of those women. She was a suffragette for the West, specifically Oregon State.

Teagan Schuman Period 5 Mr. Correia May 5, 2016 Rosa Parks Imagine making a stance in your life for something that you strongly believed in and it ended up changing the future forever. Well, Rosa Parks did just that.

“The Politics of Muscle,” an essay written by Gloria Steinem, is successful in effectively comparing and contrasting how society's standards implies that there is a difference in strength between men and women. Through the use of different rhetorical claims such as pathos, ethos, and logos, as well as a great deal of subjective and objective claims, Steinem establishes credibility which allows her to create a well-crafted essay. Although, the essay can be perceived as biased since it does not include a great deal of information on the perception of strength on men, its intended audience is women therefore, that aspect does not affect the overall quality of Steinem’s writing. In fact, it only strengthens it considering she expects her audience to share the same opinions and feelings as her. These reasons explain why overall, Steinem does a very good job of persuading the reader to think differently about the perception of women’s strength.

Women haven’t always been able to vote. Women haven’t always been able to do most of the things they can today. Who made it that way? Who helped women get the rights that they have today? Alice Paul, she is an American Suffragist, Feminist, and a women’s rights activist.

She was a feminist, at her time the word “feminist” had not been created, she was called a lot of things - an "able advocate" for her gender, a "hyena in petticoats," the bearer of a "rigid, and somewhat Amazonian temper. " Today we know her as a person who fought for woman rights. Not everyone was positive about her ideas, but she never gave up. Mary Wollstonecraft was an educator and one of the first woman rights activist, who changed the way how woman were viewed by themselves and

Throughout all history women had a difficulty in gaining rights. It took a long amount of time for women's voices to be heard in all America. Determination and being fearless was a big factor for all suffragists to be heard. Alice Paul who was a fearless women is an example of who took a stand for women’s rights with full determination. The determination she had lead to major achievements for all the women in the early years and now.