Women Change in 18th & Essay

Susan Anthony is a key figure in women's rights movement of this time. She called for increased women's admission in the teaching profession. She also campaigned for equal pay for male and female slaves as well as better protection for female laborers trough trade unions that she became a part of (Susan B. Anthony House, n.d.).

These radical changes in the sphere of womanhood are reflected in the artistic accomplishments of women. Fredrika Bremer, for example, a Swedish Finland native who traveled to the United States to learn about culture and women's position, wrote a lot about slavery. Hertha, one of Bremer's key works, is a novel depicting the story of a woman who went beyond traditional female role expectations. This is believed to have influenced the parliament in legal reforms concerning women's rights (Lewis, 2009).

Women's fight for equal rights which defined the 19th century did not escape the domain of philosophy. Women's movements and rights have become the subject matter of a lot of female philosophers -- Anna Doyle Wheeler is one of them. She wrote a lot about women's liberty and education. She was also heavily credited for William Thompson's Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other, Men, as the source of a lot of ideas of the latter. Harriet Martineau also published works with the same agenda. In her Society in America, she criticized the way women are treated in the American society. She also pursued her advocacy for women's education through this work. (Women Philosophers, n.d.).

References

Conner Prairie (2009). Women in the 1800s. Retrieved from http://www.connerprairie.org/historyonline/1880wom.html on April 25, 2009.

Lewis, J.J. (2009). Fredrika Bremer. Retrieved from http://womenshistory.about.com/od/writers19th/p/fredrika_bremer.htm on April 25, 2009.

Myers, S. et al. (n.d.). Women Leaders and Activists. Overview of 1600s/1700s. Retrieved from http://eportg.cgc.maricopa.edu/published/h/is/history201-activists/document/1/index-2.2.shtml on April 25, 2009.

Susan B. Anthony House. (n.d.). Biography of Susan B. Anthony. Retrieved from http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.shtml on April 25, 2009.

Women Philosophers (n.d.). Women Philosophers. Retrieved from http://www.women-philosophers.com/index.html on April 25, 2009.