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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman's Rights Transcendentalists

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman's Rights Transcendentalist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is known for going above, and surpassing, societies standards. She helped in shaping the future in regards of upcoming generations of women. Calling them transcendentalist, may sounds extreme, but it’s as close to the truth as possible.
Defining transcendentalism is a tricky thing to do, only because it seems to contradict the idea of the movement, but there seems to be a definition to fit the purpose. Jone Johnson Lewis believes transcendentalism to be, “Understood in one sense by their context -- by what they were rebelling against, what they saw as the current situation and therefore as what they were trying to be different from.” (1). This means that they see society, or a group of people, conforming to one belief and they want to completely change, or go against, the meaning of it. The only way it is shown is when there is a specific …show more content…

Later in her life she was exposed to many eye opening events that helped her shape the actual world around her, but one of the major ideas she focused on women’s rights. Society had many restrictions on women. They weren’t allowed to vote or work, but allowed to stay home cook and watch the kids. They noticed that society usually put men as the more dominant gender and had more privilege so she vowed to make a change. Elizabeth Stanton had “believed religion was the leading cause of women’s oppression” (“Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography.com” 1). Stanton’s separation from religion happened when she noticed Christians wanted to take away rights of women and later on be named the state’s official religion (“Elizabeth Cady Stanton History.com” 1). She obviously did not agree and continued to speak out against religion and her support as a women activist. This point further highlights her role as a

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