Assignment 1 Legal rights and privileges of women in Blackstone’s day with those of American women in the mid-twentieth century bear no resemblance. Over the years women have fought long and hard to be able to obtain and maintain legal rights and privileges that the male gender is born into. Females were molded and primed to play the part as an obedient wife and mother with instruction that your thoughts and opinions are kept to yourself. The perseverance of brave women helped today’s generation of women such as myself have the same equal rights as that of men. During the Blackstone era women lost the limited amount of rights they did possess when they got married for example; “that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended
Additionally, seeing as women make up half of the worldʼs population they are also another important factor to understand. When looking at world history is a whole it is clear to see that women influenced many developments, and they clearly played a role in shaping todayʼs cultures. We are living in a world today that is starkly contrasted with the one that women were living in back then, nonetheless, some of the ways that women are treated and looked at today branch from the beliefs and social systems of civilizations like Mesopotamia and Egypt. Some will say that men still are the head of the family, others will say that things are far more equal now than they were back then. That will continue to be an ongoing debate with no clear right or wrong answer.
Women in early societies lived to reproduced and continue the blood line, mostly striving for male babies. People in society in some ways believed that god wanted life to run as women as the follower or to be inferior. Women through the years pushed to work and for education and over time laws were granted to allow this for women. The people saw a need for more workers with more jobs now available. The turn of women’s rights has gradually changed so much that women and men are pretty much considered equal in most of the
Some newer sources from the early to mid 20th century have argued against these claims. People who provide evidence for Hatshepsut being a ‘warrior pharaoh’ = * Naville – “Hatshepsut has been shown as a sphinx, trampling Egypt’s enemies underfoot”. * The Ancient Egyptian Nobleman, Ti (EYEWITNESS)– “I saw him destroying the land of Nubia…I saw him overthrowing the [Nubian] nomads, their chiefs being brought to him as prisoners”. AS ACKNOWLEDGED BY REDFORD, TI’S ACCOUNT IS “THE FIRST AND MAJOR PIECE OF EVIDENCE”. * Hatshepsut herself inscribes on the Third Pylon at Karnak that she is the one, “who commands what happens…The Asiatic being in fear and the land of Nubia in submission”.
In Sophocles “Oedipus the king”, Oedipus was sent to mount Cithaeron as a new born baby to die after his father (King Laius) was cursed by the gods and heard of a prophecy that his son is to kill his father and marry his mother (Queen Jocasta). The Shepard in charge of this could not kill the baby so instead Oedipus is adopted. Later Oedipus hears about the prophecy, and leaves, afraid that the prophecy would come true. Along the way he gets in a fight with a man and kills him, unknowingly his father. He then solves a riddle from the Sphinx, which has been terrorizing a kingdom, and in return, the kingdom gives him their queen's hand in marriage, which is his biological mother.
Anthony was a strong proponent for women’s rights. Her trial proved to me to be, one of the most absurd hypocrisies of the 19th century for American politics. Although Susan B. Anthony would not live long enough to see the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, her legacy lives forever through every American woman. Leaving the un-answered question of why? Why did it take another century for women to become equal to men?
If everyone is born the same way we are all generally the same, then why didn't we all have the same rights. Everyone in the world should have the same rights and they should all be able too live equally. Women have had their rights withheld from them for many years and that was wrong. One of the first women to really go out and try to do something about it and change the way women are looked and do something about the horrible oppression that women were put through everyday. The women's rights movement was primarily concerned with making the political, social, and economic status of women equal to that of men.
| | Any society always assumes that it’s position on matters is the most sensible, most rational, and, ultimately, best. In fact, societies throughout history have had wildly differing expectations of life, depending on their religious, political and cultural environment. For example, a thousand years ago, women were considered inferior to men, and this was a viewpoint which the vast majority of women shared, as they had been brought up to believe in it. The problem occurs when one society, with its own idiosyncratic views, attempts to formulate a legal document that bill bind future generations. For example, the American Bill of Rights was considered revolutionary and foresighted in its time, but now rights such as the right to bear arms are outdated and an obstacle.
In fact, women’s power can be unstoppable. It might be the result of centuries of ignorance and indifference towards women’s capacities, as it might be an inborn nature. However, the woman revolution is starting to break the wall of racism and discrimination, proving that a woman can be equal to a man in all domains: politics, society affairs, business, medicine, legal affairs and others. Few years ago, in the occidental
Eleanor wanted to set men and women equal in order for them to receive the same opportunities and rights. Eleanor Roosevelt made a lasting impact on improving the lives of women today. Equality was Eleanor’s number one goal for America. Of much concern to her was ensuring equal opportunities for women under Roosevelt’s New Deal project. Franklin Roosevelt neglected women in a way that Eleanor strongly disagreed with.