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This 5 page paper discusses the book “Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement,” as well as tracing the progress women have made in holding elected office, and breaking into non-traditional jobs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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paper discusses the book Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Womens Rights Movement, as well as tracing the progress women have made in holding elected office, and breaking into
non-traditional jobs. Discussion At Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, a small group of women met to work for womens rights; the movement for womens rights, along with abolitionism, became
one of the two most influential social movements in American history (McPherson). Although it took more than 60 years before women had the right to vote and equality is still
not a reality, the womens movement nevertheless transformed the United States, in part by redefining what it was "proper" for a woman to do (McPherson). The abolitionists provoked a pro-slavery
reaction that "polarized the country" and led ultimately to the Civil War; the womens movement, while almost completely non-violent, was "almost equally polarizing" (McPherson ix). McPherson, who wrote the introduction
to McMillens book, notes that she centered her book around the lives of four remarkable women: Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (McPherson). Tracing their
lives and the work they did makes it easier to understand the progress and keep up with what was done that if she simply did an overview of the movement.
One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments that came out of the meeting was modeled on
the Declaration of Independence; in particular the clause "all men are created equal," which the Seneca Falls convention changed to read, "all men and women are created equal" (McMillen). At
the time of the meeting, women had almost no rights at all. When they married, whatever property they had transferred to their husband, meaning that they had no control over
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