Women's Rights During the Jackson Era

“Meekness, humility, gentleness, love, purity, self-renunciation, subjection of will…. The fairest flowers, which our fallen world can produce,” woman’s virtues, according to the most acceptable definition of the natural order in society (Melder 2). Men and women occupied totally different social situations. Between 1815 and 1840 the circumstances of women’s lives changed in a number of ways, especially in education, under law, and in the attitudes influencing woman’s social status. The most significant phase of …showed first 75 words of 786 total…

…showed last 75 words of 786 total…helping to organize them nationally. The movement’s purposes, momentous yet simple, were described by an advocate in 1840: “I shall claim nothing for ourselves because of our sex, we should demand our recognition as equal members of the human family. The term “Woman’s Rights” will become obsolete, for none will entertain the idea that the rights of women differ from the rights of men. It is then human rights for which we contend”(Davis 158).