Judith Sargent Murray

One of the early women to advocate this idea was Judith Sargent Murray. Judith Sargent Murray was an early American woman who proposed Women’s rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. Murray’s ideas about women’s rights were considered extreme in the 1700s. Murray asserted education should be equally offered to women as the same as men and argued for women to earned and manage their own money. By demanding women to be treating equally Murray challenged the founding fathers of American and opened doors to future generations of women’s suffrage. (National women’s history Museum) Judith Sargent Murray was born on May 1, 1751, in Gloucester, Massachusetts into a wealthy merchant family. As a daughter…

Judith Sargent Murray very efficiently debunks the idea that men and women are not equal in their intellect in her essay “Equality of the sexes”. During the 17th and 18th century, women we’re viewed as lesser than men in society. Young girls did not receive the same education as young boys, leaving them at a disadvantage. Because of this, women were forced into doing the domestic jobs in society, such as, sewing, cooking and cleaning. Murray find it preposterous that women are treated so…

primary source titled “On the Equality of the Sexes” was published by Judith Sargent Murray in 1790. She published her work in two parts. The first publication was written in the form of a poem followed by the second publication which was written as an essay. It is very interesting how Murray sarcastically titles her essay about the equality of the sexes when the majority of her essay explains the inequality between the sexes. However, in her essay, she introduces the ideas of intellectual and…

Judith Sargent Murry is not a well-known name in everyday life, but to women activists and historians she was a key part of the women’s rights in the eighteenth century. She was an advocate for women’s right to an education. Judith’s upbringing had a lot to do with her work toward equality. She was raised in a wealthy household where her brothers had an excellent education and she was not given the same opportunities. Judith wrote many manuscripts, essays, and poems throughout her life. One of…

Abigail Adam’s early signs of Feminism Feminism is an organized effort to give women the same economic, social, and political rights as men. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, supported early ideas of feminism or women’s rights, she focused most importantly on girls getting an education, she developed these ideas from her marriage to John and her influential childhood. First, Abigail Adams felt very strongly about girls receiving an education. Judith Sargent Murray felt strongly about…

The two writers Samson Occom and Judith Sargent Murray call attention to important social questions through their writing. Both of them have life lived experience of being on the receiving end of social injustice. In the essay “On the Equality of the Sexes” Judith Sargent Murray questioned the origin of male superiority by writing, ”May we not trace its source in the difference of education, and continued advantage? … Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old is more sage…

Feminist theory is a fairly new approach to the IR discipline and the aim is to produce knowledge that helps inform practices to improve the lives of women. Feminists use the experience of women to make research that is beneficial to women. In doing so they believe that their viewpoints might uncover aspects of reality that is hidden by more conventional approaches. Feminists believe that by paying attention to experiences of women IR theories might be reformulated and the understanding of world…

many varying faces and personalities’ rushes through your head? Audre Lorde and Judith Butler are two such writers that share a connection through their craft and their meaning. Though they may have these general similarities, they have their own approaches to specific problems and issues. In society, people are thrust into categories previously developed to further relate one to another. For both of these theorists, the groupings that individuals are thrown into are lacking to say mildly.…

“What About Bob?” is a comedy starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray’s character, Bob Wiley, suffers from a multitude of disorders and phobias. He is very neurotic and easily forms extreme attachments to people and things he gets comfortable with. Dreyfuss plays Dr. Leo Marvin a successful psychiatrist with a huge ego, who thinks he has a grip on everything. He thinks he knows how to handle anyone or any situation with ease and clarity. The movie revolves around Leo’s new book “Baby…

Luke Bryan has worked over the years to become the successful country artist he is today. He grew up working on a farm in Georgia for his father (Luke Bryan Biography 1). In his early teens, he had decided that he wanted to have a career in music (Luke Bryan Biography 1). Luke began writing songs with some help from others (Luke Bryan Biography 1). Many of his songs made it on the Billboard Hot 100, and a lot of his albums made it on the Billboard 200 (Demings Award Section). Although Luke Bryan…