Feminism | Posted by Chloe H on 07/19/2017
What We Can Learn From The Seneca Falls Convention Over 160 Years Later
The Seneca Falls Convention, which is perhaps best remembered for its demand for women’s suffrage, was held on July 19, 1848. And yet 169 years later, American women continue to struggle within the confines of a patriarchal and misogynistic society—and to honor the legacy of the Seneca Falls Convention nonetheless by continuing to fight for their rights.
The convention produced an influential feminist document called the “Declaration of Sentiments,” which highlighted the ironic lack of freedom women had in their country given their nation’s founding document and overall purpose. As the Declaration of Sentiments pointed out, “the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.” …