Women s rights

The Lavender article was written by Catherine Lavender was written to show what the Ideal women should be like in 1910. She had four main ideas for the ideal women. submissiveness, Domesticity, Piety, and Purity. For submissiveness she talks about clothing that the women were supposed to wear. The tight corset lacing that pinched organs together. The corset caused extreme fatigue and women passed out all the time. That is why people thought that women were the weaker sex. Domesticity she talks about what the women role is in the house and that her only role is to be busy and morally uplifting. Women have to keep the house cheerful and peaceful to attract men from the evil outside of the house. Catherine talks about piety as well and about religion and how it is good for a woman's life. She talks about purity as well. There were rumors of mothers that were not married and their babies would punished by god. Female purity was used as a weapon as well to be used to keep men in control of their sexual needs. She also talked about the public and private sphere. The public Sphere was violent and full of temptations for the women and the private sphere was the women took charge.

The Seneca convention was a group of men and women , mostly women, who wanted to change the way women were treated in America. The declaration of Sentiments of Resolutions was like the Declaration of Independence because its like the break up with Great Britain. The womens suffrage was controversial because the it brought up different problems in different groups like slaves, poor and immigrants. A voice left out at the convention was the African American slave women. In class each group had a different group of people looking for rights that had to do directly with them. My group was the African American slave women. Our main point was to end slavery. The most important resolution i thought was to end sklaver and i was a little upset that it wasnt are first most important thing to end but it was our second so i was ok with it. I thought this was a fun and interesting unit.