Representatives of feminism demanded gender equality through socio-economic and legal reforms. However, a cultural tradition that separated the female sphere of activities from the socio-political, again and again forced them to make excuses for their insolence.įor a long time a married American woman could not own property, sign contracts on her behalf and even to dispose her own salary.Īt the end of XVIII – early XIX centuries many early supporters of feminism considered marriage as the main instrument of oppression of women. In their letters and diaries educated women of the late eighteenth century often touched the political issues. Women who were not previously interested in politics, quickly joined the political thought and became involved in political discussions.
The war for independence and the political crisis in America did not only politicize consciousness of women, but also the content of their private life. These works had the idea that a woman is born with the same ability to be free, complete personality as a man.
In the seventeenth century, the first works that proved that the woman was fully human appeared. Of course, the question of on the unequal position of the “weaker sex” arose earlier. Initially, the women's movement arose in North America during the war for Independence (1775-1783).
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