Nowadays, there are not a lot of American citizens that will recognize Nellie Bly from the utterance of her pen name, and yet this was a much different story in the early nineteenth century. She was a woman of moxie that grew up in trouble over the burdens of a financially unstable life in addition to an unhealthy pseudoparental relationship that ended with a divorce in her youth. These tribulations lead her to pursue the field of journalism in an effort to reveal the social injustices in her society by means of stunts to cross the ethical threshold via becoming a part of it in her own firsthand one-of-a-kind stories. It also broke countless of stereotypes for her gender at her time in which was regarded to only be a man's world considering …show more content…
Anthony, proper husbandry, and even proposing that woman volunteers should help fight in the Spanish-American War…[She went on to take a sixteen yearlong hiatus during which she helped run his company and eventually founded the American Steel Barrel Company that marketed the very first steel barrels in the United States as a result of her husband dying in 1904. This company would soon have nose-dived from financial troubles because of Cochrane yielding an excessive amount of worker benefits which caused her to join the New York Evening Journal in 1912]…Two years later, after dealing with frustrating financial matters over the inheritance from her deceased husband, as well as embezzlement by her barrel company’s employees, Cochrane fled to Austria just in time for the outbreak of the First World War. The Evening Journal carried her battlefield reporting from the Russian and Serbian fronts, unbeknownst to Cochrane that her support for the Austrians and calls for their aid would eventually be… [problematic seeing that America had later on declared war against it which] led to some complications with the authorities upon her return to America in 1919. By war’s end and with her funds exhausted, Cochran wrote advice columns for the Evening Journal, remaining strong in her activism in assisting orphaned children and the poor. Alone and poor, she died of pneumonia, brought about by heart disease, after three short weeks on January 27, 1922, at St. Mark’s Hospital in New York City and was buried in the Church of the Ascension Cemetery. Journalist Arthur Brisbane would praise her in the
The author, Elizabeth Brown Pryor, wrote her biography of Clara Barton with the intent to not only tell her life, but to use personal items (diary and letters) of Clara’s found to help fill information of how Clara felt herself about incidents in her life. Her writing style is one that is easy to understand and also one that enables you to actually get pulled into the story of the person. While other biographical books are simply dry facts, this book, with the help of new found documents, allows Pryor to give a modern look on Barton’s life. This book gave a lot of information about Ms. Barton while also opening up new doors to the real Clara Barton that was not always the angel we hear about. Pryor’s admiration for Ms. Barton is clear in her writing, but she doesn’t see her faults as being a bad thing, but rather as a person who used all available means to help her fellow soldiers and friends along in life.
Another aspect that brought many women into abolitionism was the play on their emotions. Although the stereotype of women being very emotional beings is extremely subjective, it is, more times than not, very true. And I, being a woman, can vouch for that idea, even though I would rather not admit to it. Garrison and his writers, knowing this, played to women’s emotions in the urge to get them more involved. And this notion later helped women bring others into the movement by using their own emotions to play on the h...
The 19th century was a time of great social change in the United States as reflected by the abolitionist movement and the women’s suffrage movement. Two very influential women leaders were Angelina Grimke and Sojourner Truth. Grimke was born a Southern, upper class white woman. She moved to the North as a young woman, grew involved in abolitionism and women’s rights, and became known for her writing, particularly “Letters to Catherine Beecher”. Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree; she escaped to freedom, changed her name, and became an active speaker on behalf of both the abolition and women’s rights movements. Truth’s most famous speech is “Ain’t I a Woman?”. While both Grimke and Truth use a personal, conversational tone to communicate their ideas, Grimke relies primarily on logical arguments and Truth makes a more emotional appeal through the use of literary strategies and speech.
Here it is seen that McClung is developing and proceeding in her fight to provide equality among the sexes, by allowing girls to participate in sporting games. She was providing her female students with the privileges they rightfully deserve. Furthermore, she again went against the norms of a woman in the nineteenth century by simply being a teacher. All of which making Nellie McClung an example of a strong, feminist activist for other women of her era to follow She successfully taught at Hazel school for seven years. It was also at Hazel school that Nellie met the woman who would make the largest impact on her life, Annie McClung.
Before the 1920’s women had very few rights in politics, education, sports, and fashion. Suffragists fought for a long time against those who said they would never get what they want. In this essay we’ll also be connecting to The Great Gatsby to see how F. Scott Fitzgerald showed examples of the struggles women had went through when they were coming up in the world.
One of the main goals in the life of an elite southern woman was to be continually regarded as a lady. While some southern women privately disagreed with the popular social and political mindsets of their era, most of their opinions were not so strong that they felt the need to publicly advocate for change. This was mainly due to the fact that if a woman expressed her opinion publicly, she would be seen as unladylike, which would be a blow to her reputation, the cornerstone of how she defined herself. In the book Mothers of Invention, Drew Gilpin Faust gives the reader Lucy Wood as an example of an elite southern woman who had a negative opinion of the African slave trade. In a letter to her future husband, Lucy Wood expressed that she felt the African slave trade was “extremely revolting,” however, she was also quick to add “[but] I have no political opinion and have a peculiar dislike of all females who discuss such matters.” (10). This elite southern woman was apparently more concerned with her own ladylike reputation than standing up for ...
Dubbed by Fitzgerald as “the quintessence of what the term ‘flapper’ signifies,” Clara Bow served as the model for all flappers. A flapper was the new woman; attractive, sassy, “worldly-wise, and briefly clad.” The flapper took on an impish and tomboyish, at lead for their time, attitude. They danced on tables, rendering the recklessness of the new youth. But modern women proved to be a danger for the conventionalism of America. They influenced the change on women’s rights, what was considered moral, and what was considered appropriate for women. These issues had previously been for making a timid woman; upon the coming of the modern woman, these issues made for a modernist female.
Barry offers this biography of perhaps the most unconventional woman of her century. By drawing upon letters, diaries, and other documents, she integrates Anthony's personal story into the political, economic, and cultural milieu of 19th century.
Margaret had huge dreams of one day becoming a writer, but those dreams were put on hold when her father suddenly passed away in 1835. At this time, her mother was also sick and it became her responsibility to take care of her family’s finances. There were not many job opportunities available to women during this time, she found a teaching job and accepted the position. She first began teaching at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School in Boston and taught there until she went on to teach at the well-kn...
In “Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South,” Jacquelyn Hall explains that future generations would need to grapple with the expenses of commercialization and to expound a dream that grasped financial equity and group unanimity and also women’s freedom. I determined the reasons for ladies ' insubordination neither reclassified sexual orientation parts nor overcame financial reliance. I recollected why their craving for the trappings of advancement could obscure into a self-constraining consumerism. I estimated how a belief system of sentiment could end in sexual peril or a wedded lady 's troublesome twofold day. None of that, in any case, should cloud a generation’s legacy. I understand requirements for a standard of female open work, another style of sexual expressiveness, the section of ladies into open space and political battles beforehand cornered by men all these pushed against conventional limitations even as they made new susceptibilities.
At some point in the late 1800’s or specifically, 1892 when “The Yellow Wallpaper” was published, a plethora of social campaigns pertaining to the liberty and legal rights of women arose. During the nineteenth century, the ‘Feminist Movement’ was extremely active and vigorous (1st Source). This was a major step because primarily, women’s’ roles included being wives and mothers and nothing more. The Feminist Movement was fighting for reforms on issues such as women’s suffrage, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, etc(2nd Source). Similarly, “Self-Expression” was a significant subject matter because women at that time were manipulated, required to be submissive and pious just like the character in the story. She was controlled, ordered around like a child, had her every move monitored and her ideas were always shut down. For example, after she told her husband, John she wanted to lea...
Angelina Grimke and Sojourner Truth were both prominent American civil rights activists of the 19th century who focused on the abolition of slavery and women’s rights issues, respectively. While both of these women challenged the societal beliefs of the United States at the time regarding these civil rights issues, the rhetorical strategies used by each of these women to not only illustrate their respective arguments but also to raise social awareness of these issues was approached in very different fashions. Angelina Grimke promoted the use of white middle-class women’s positions in the household to try to influence the decision makers, or men, around them. On the other hand, Sojourner Truth, a former slave turned women’s rights activist,
Rappaport, Doreen. American Women, Their Lives in Their Words: Thomas Y. Crowell, New York 1990
Imagine that you have a dream or goal that you’d like to pursue, but you’re denied the opportunity to even begin. This is a dilemma that most women faced on a daily basis in the 1930’s. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, this sort of discrimination is frequently demonstrated by all the characters, as this was an accepted “trend” in society. Although Curley’s wife is given a major part in the plot, she is often dismissed and overlooked. The male character’s disregard of Curley’s wife’s goals and dreams represents a broader discrimination of women in society.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. New York: Random House, Inc., 2007. Print.