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Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...
The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, [1] with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill.
The Rights of Woman further hybridizes its genre by weaving together elements of the conduct book, the short essay, and the novel, genres often associated with women, while at the same time claiming that these genres could be used to discuss philosophical topics such as rights. [63]
[4] [5] The essay predated Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women which was published in 1792 and 1794, [6] and the work has been credited as being Murray's most important work. [7] [8] In this feminist essay, Murray posed the argument of spiritual and intellectual equality between men and women. [9]
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer.She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the sexes so that women, like men, had the capability of intellectual accomplishment and should be able to achieve economic independence.
Scholars have suggested Woman in the Nineteenth Century was the first major women's rights work since Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), [14] beginning with a comparison between the two women made by George Eliot in her 1855 essay "Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft". [15]
The legal rights of women refers to the social and human rights of women. One of the first women's rights declarations was the Declaration of Sentiments . [ 1 ] The dependent position of women in early law is proved by the evidence of most ancient systems.
Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents .