These three readings were from different time periods and different perspectives but all talk about the reasons why women can hold their own in a man’s world if given the chance and give interesting takes on the women’s movement. Cady Stanton and Truth give us insight to the first feminist movement while Dubios talks retrospectively about this movement and about the second feminist movement that she is on the tail end of. Truth’s work shows us how an African American woman felt in her time period while Cady Stanton shows us how a white woman felt. The readings left me appreciating the work that these women did and appreciating the situations on which they had to live and had to work to get their messages out.
I found the two readings by Cady Stanton and Truth most interesting because of the similar nature of their messages but the radically different ways in which they lived and expressed themselves. Truth says she was a slave for half of he life while Cady Stanton seems to have a more privileged life, but they are working towards the same goals. It was interesting to me though how the African American women according to Truth had to consider whether or not to align themselves with the white women even though they had the same goals. It seems so basic to me that women are women no matter the color of their skin but these readings really helped me to see how the culture of their times really affected how they proceeded with their fight and how brave these women were to stick up for themselves.
Out of curiosity I looked at some pictures of these two women to see if their differences or similarities were more apparent than their words or skin color would show.
Sojourner Truth - MHSLitCircles11. http://mhslitcircles11.wikispaces.com/Ain't+I+a+Woman+and+After+Being+Convicted+of+Voting+in+the+1872+Presidential+election
1/26/2011
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Wall of Femmes. http://walloffemmes.blogspot.com/2010/11/nov-12-happy-195th-birthday-elizabeth.html 1/26/2011
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