{"id":397,"date":"2025-08-26T23:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:56:39","slug":"womans-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/course-syllabus\/womans-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Truth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-398\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Truth.jpg\" alt=\"Truth\" width=\"580\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Truth.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Truth-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sojourner Truth used to sell this carte de visite (CDV) in 1864 and beyond (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/301989\">MET Museum<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>TEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/texts\/sojourner-truth-i-am-a-womans-rights-1851\/\">Truth, &#8220;I Am a Woman&#8217;s Rights&#8221; (1851)<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Short speech delivered by Truth at a Woman&#8217;s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio and transcribed by Marius Robinson for the abolitionist newspaper,\u00a0<em>Anti-Slavery Bugle<\/em><\/li>\n<li>A different version of this speech appeared in 1863 with a refrain that now has become famous:\u00a0 &#8220;Arn&#8217;t [or Ain&#8217;t] I A Woman?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CONTEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/10-religion-and-reform\/#VI_Womens_Rights_in_Antebellum_America\">Role(s) of Antebellum Women<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Women&#8217;s roles changed during the <strong>Second Great Awakening<\/strong>, not only because of new revival opportunities in mainstream Protestant denominations but also because of the emergence of new religious sects and utopian communities<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Market Revolution<\/strong> also altered women&#8217;s roles in society, encouraging a new <strong>Cult of Domesticity<\/strong> (sometimes also called <strong>True Womanhood<\/strong>) for middle and upper class women<\/li>\n<li>1848 also marked a turning point in political organizing for women with the <strong>Seneca Falls Convention<\/strong> (against coverture) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton&#8217;s powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/declaration-of-sentiments-1848\/\">Declaration of Sentiments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SUBTEXT:\u00a0 Portraying Sojourner Truth<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ry_i8w2rdQY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Actress Kerry Washington performs \u201cAin\u2019t I A Woman?\u201d version<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does Washington&#8217;s modern portrayal of Sojourner Truth illustrate some of the arguments inside Nell Irvin Painter&#8217;s biographical essay?\u00a0 (see\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2021\/07\/Painter-article.pdf\">&#8220;Sojourner Truth in Life and Memory: Writing the Biography of an American Exotic,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Gender &amp; 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