The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Worcester, October 23d & 24th, 1850 - Scholar's Choice Edition
The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Worcester, October 23d & 24th, 1850 - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Woman's Rights Convention

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781298126283

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The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Worcester, October 23d & 24th, 1850
The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Worcester, October 23d & 24th, 1850

Author: Woman's Rights Convention

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016537452

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The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Worcester, October 23d
The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Worcester, October 23d

Author: National American Woman Collection

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781458977823

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... less the plaything, and more a fit companion for man, --a truer and better wife and mother, more influential for good everywhere, in all the relations of life. Thus marriage, generation, education, man, the race, --all rise higher and higher. Look again, and see how things are, and the consequences. Woman degenerates, physically and intellectually. By thus narrowing their sphere, and curtailing their rights and resources, women are doomed to an endless routine of domestic drudgery, to an indoor sedentary life, with little or no stimulus to great or noble endeavors. They feel, indeed, with their narrow views and narrow interests, and their weakened bodies, that they are overcrowded and overdone with cares and labors. Dooming women to satisfy their love for excellence in household arrangements only--their love for beauty in dress, etc., is a great injury to both soul and body. We are so constituted, that exercise and great exertion, with high and soul-arousing objects, are potent to give us strength and powers of endurance. Witness wives in the times of our Revolution, think of the privations, hardships, and toil our grandmothers endured; compare them with the sickly race of wives and mothers whom modern improvements and labor-saving machinery in cloth-making are relieving from so much exertion, yet reducing their physical strength in proportion! My remedy for this increasing degeneracy in health and consequent weakness of mind, is: --give woman her rights; acknowledge her equality with man in privileges for the improvement of all her gifts; lift off the incubus weight, that crushes half her rights; allow her to feel that she has other obligations resting upon her than the eternal routine of domestic affairs. The beautiful home duties she will none the more ne

This High and Holy Moment
This High and Holy Moment

Author: John F. McClymer

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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This documentary narrative focuses on the first national women's rights convention and the period of history surrounding it. Assessing the convention within the context of 1850s ante-bellum reform efforts, the author presents relevant documents without bias, allowing students to come to their own conclusions about this critical period in American history.