Susan B Anthony's Discrimination In The Awakening

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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, women felt discriminated against by men and by most of society. Men generally held discriminatory and stereotypical views of women, which made many women dissatisfied with their lives and made them, feel their lives were unfulfilled and spinning out of control. Discrimination spurred women to take action. Women began to revolt, they began expressing the feelings they had bottled up inside all along. Kate Chopin wrote The Awakening, which helped other women to know they were not alone. In 1848, women organized the Seneca Falls convention and the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. Later women demanded suffrage and equal rights for all. Many famous female leaders, from the Grimke sisters to Susan B. Anthony, led women to form many organizations and associations in order to preserve and uphold the rights they fought so hard for. First, in 1848 women rebelled against men's stereotypical views and organized the Seneca Falls convention. Seventy-two years before the 19th…show more content…
It is governed by some innate temperamental bias that cannot be diagrammed"( Cather 142-143). Cather said that although there was no need to have another Madame Bovary written, it was well done and was well received. Many authors could not manage to write and publish a novel on such a controversial subject, especially one that had been covered by the French already, but Mrs. Chopin certainly did. Cather also comments on Chopin's writing style, she almost excuses anything that did not meet the critics standards by saying that every writers style is different and that once in a while one will write an excellent book from a very debatable subject that can be accepted among other writers and

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