Edmee Ferrer Essay

Professor Anderson Listening to the Womens Rights was actually moving and it actually touched me and I learned a lot about what women had to go through and are still going through. I learned about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and what an fearsome and ruling woman she was. Stanton was born in November. 12, 1815 and died in October. 26, 1902. She was an American Social Activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early Womens Rights Movement. Besides focusing on Womens Rights she also addressed issues pertaining to voting rights, womens parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce, the economic health of the family and birth control. She was also an outspoken supporter of the nineteenth century temperance movement. In 1920 women gained the right to vote, right of citizens of United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States or any state on account of sex. In the 1940s and the 1950s men had to go out to war so it left women to depen d on themselves and started working to provide for their family. I also learned about the first-wave feminism and the second-wave feminism. The first-wave feminism focused more on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality, voting rights, and property rights.The second-wave feminism broadened the study to a wide range of issues like sexuality, family, the work place, reproductive rights, and official legal inequalities. The second-wave feminism also focused on domestic violence and marital rape issues, establishment of rape crisis and battered womens shelter, also changes in custody and divorce law. I can say that I am very proud to be a woman, we wipe out had to go through many challenges, having to be slaves of our life as wifes and mothers and kinsperson makers. Being sex slaves to our husbands, looked d bear at or feel less than a man. Not able to work or feel independent. We women are powerful and strong and capable of changing the world forever, capable of showing how we can be as amazing as any man can. Women now have as many rights as any man have. An example of these rights are the right to vote, to hold public office, to work, to fair wages or equal pay, to own property, to education, to serve in the military, enter into legal contracts, and to have marital and parental rights.