Other Revolutions and Important Figures
Along with the Declaration of Sentiments, many other movements and actions started that aroused the new change for women's importance.
Mary Wollstonecraft
- - expressed revolutionary ideals in published books such as The Vindication of the Rights of Women
- - advocated for Free Love and a woman's role in society
- - believed a woman was not meant to be merely a wife, but she had a duty to educate children and be a man's companion
"Still more strikingly [Wollstonecraft] says...that she prefers the word 'affection' to 'love' because the former implies temperance and habit." -New York Times, 1879
Victoria Woodhull
- - wrote many speeches and articles advocating women's rights in the second half of the 1800's (after the Seneca Falls Convention)
- - her husband advocated women's rights behind the scenes through her
- - campaigned to be an American president in 1872 (a feat that was never attempted before by a woman)
Susan B. Anthony
- - worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the Women's Rights Movement of 1852
- - continued the progress done by the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848.
- - traveled the U.S. to speak for women's suffrage
- - also talked about topics such as women's property rights
Ernestine Rose
- - petitioned for women's rights prior to the Seneca Falls Convention
- - had connections with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- - campaigned for and lectured on national women's rights thirty years after the Seneca Falls Convention
- - became known as "The Queen of the Platform" for her great speaking skills
To Comstock Laws, an act that women reacted to very much.