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Assignment 01

I believe that Davis is trying to tell us the changed of women’ social status during the Seneca Falls Convention. From the absent of women in the convention, bring up the issue of inequality for women. This reference was not just talking about the right for women to vote, also arguing for change the traditional stereotype of women: stay at home and being a housewife. As Charlotte Woodward states in the reference: Women were consider lived as dependent for their husband after they married. The first part of this reference was focus on the middle-class white women, but in the rest of part also talk about working women and black women, which are more difficult to fight for their rights than middle-class white women.

Davis also gave the life experiences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Frederick Douglass tell us how education and political effect on the result of women’s right. Such as the major of Stanton of a law student taught her to be able to organized the political challenge of oppression, and have possibility to fight for equal. The publish of Douglass after the convention also help to introducing the issue of women’s right to the black liberation movement, and to the future.

Another outcome of the women’s right were the equality between black women and white women. The black women have more disadvantages in struggle for the right rather than white women. They face the problem of racism. Sojourner Truth gave a speech in the first National Convention,she was the only one to argue with the male supremacist, gave the strong speech ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’, defeat to the men’s weaker sex argument. Her speech also inspire other to struggle the right such as Frances Dana Gage.

In conclude, this convention can be mark as a important point in the way to the equality of women’s right.