Transcript The Role of Christianity in the American Woman's Movement

The Role of Christianity in the
American Woman's Movement
By Brenda Ayres
The Woman’s To Blame
Patriarchy
Having undertaken for the Glory of God,
and Advancement of the Christian Faith,
and the Honour of our King and Country, a
voyage to plant the first colony in the
northern parts of Virginia
Anne Hutchinson on Trial
Nay, I came to keep bloodguiltiness from you, desireing you to repeal
the unrighteous and unjust law made against the innocent servants of
the Lord. Nay, man, I am not now to repent—Mary Dyer, 1660
He is no respecter of person
(Acts 10:34)
There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither slave
nor free man, there is neither
male nor female; for you are
all one in Christ Jesus
(Gal 3: 28)
“Egalité des Hommes et des Femmes”
By Marie de Gourney, 1622
Cotton Mather
The sex may be esteemed [for] the Share
which it has had in writing those Oracles,
which make us wise unto Salvation. As
one woman is the Mother of Him who is
the essential word of God so diverse
women have been the writers of the
Declarative word—Ornaments of the
Daughters of Zion, 1691
Martha Wright
Susan B. Anthony
Whatever I tell you in the
dark, speak in the light; and
what you hear in the ear,
preach on the housetops
(Matthew 10: 27)
Lucretia Mott
Abby Kelly
In fact, the conduct of an
accountable being must be
regulated by the operations of its
own reason; or on what
foundation rests the throne of
God?
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
Charles Brockden
Brown,
Alcuin, 1798
Judith Sargent Murray
Margaret Fuller
True Womanhood?
The Beecher Family
Catharine Beecher
Temperance
Movement
Woman’s Club of Richland Center
1908
The Largest Women’s Reform
Societies
• American Sunday
School Union
• American Bible
Society
• The American
Female Moral
Reform Society
• The Female
Assistance
Society
• The American Female
Guardian Society and
Home for the
Friendless
• The Moral Reform
Society
• The Women's Prison
Association
• The American
Missionary Society.
Lowell Girls
When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one portion
of the family of man to assume among
the people of the earth a position
different from that which they have
hitherto occupied, but one to which the
laws of nature and of nature’s God
entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes that impel
them to such a course.
We hold these truths to be selfevident; that all men and women are
created equal; that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights’ that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness; that to secure these rights
governments are instituted, deriving
their just powers form the consent of
the governed.
To get the word male in effect out of the
Constitution cost the women of the country fiftytwo years of pauseless campaign thereafter.
During that time they were forced to conduct
fifty-six campaigns of referenda to male voters;
480 campaigns to urge Legislatures to submit
suffrage amendments to voters; 47 campaigns
to induce State constitutional conventions to
write woman suffrage into State constitutions;
277 campaigns to persuade State party
conventions to include woman suffrage planks;
30 campaigns to urge presidential party
conventions to adopt woman suffrage planks in
party platforms, and 19 campaigns with 19
successive Congresses. (107)
I desire you to remember the ladies…. Do not
put such unlimited power into the hands of
husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants
if they could.... [w]e are determined to foment a
rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound to
obey any laws in which we have no voice or
representation."
The 19th Amendment
"Article-, Section 1. - The right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or
by any State on account of sex. "Section
2. - Congress shall have power, by
appropriate legislation, to enforce the
provisions of this article."
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