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This 8 page paper discusses the history and origins of the feminist movement. Also discussed is the use of feminist rhetoric. The book Persuasion and Social Movements is used to explore the application by the women's rights movement of social rhetoric. Examples are given. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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such a set of circumstances that would leave many wondering what had happened and how such an event might have been circumnavigated. Sebastian Jungers book, The Perfect Storm, depicts such
an event, based on an unstoppable storm. The parallel to this storm and the rising tide of feminism at its beginning have many similarities. This paper will seek to examine
several of those parallels in the area of origin, and rhetorical strategy, and to show that combined, they have made for a feminist perfect storm.
The first initial stirrings can be said to have been detected in the movements of the late 1800s and is typically referred to as the antebellum reform(American
Experience, 2002). This can be said to have been started because the women of the day, who longed to be active participants in social reform, namely that, and ironically so,
of slavery and temperance. Women in the forefront of this early movement were Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Abby Kelly, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone(American Experience, 2002).
When the Civil War was over many of the women in the movement were sure that because the black man had been freed, that this
feeling of liberty would be extended to them. They were wrong. The fifteenth and fourteenth amendments came and went, but their right to vote was not secure, nor were the
other rights which they had demanded, such as a womans right to own property, or to petition the court for a legal separation.
"The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed the Fifteenth Amendment, but called for a Sixteenth Amendment that would enfranchise women"(American
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