Samantha Stapleton Blog 4

This blog post is my response to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.” Four women are specifically named in this text to be supporters of women’s rights (Stanton 206 and 208). While one woman, Mary Ann McClintock, is named along with a man, Thomas McClintock, others are not listed with the names of men. Since men were, at this time, considered to be the “master” (Stanton 205) of women, were the women who were specifically named punished or prosecuted by their husbands or relatives? Is this why other individuals at the Seneca Falls Convention were referred to as “and others” (Stanton 206)? Members of both genders opposed as well as supported women’s rights, so what if many individuals decided to remain anonymous out of fear? What could a woman do if her husband or male relative was abusive? If men were supposed to “master” (Stanton 205) women, were abused men ridiculed when abused by wives? What could they do to escape abusive relationships? Did Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s husband strike out at her for advocating women’s rights? Was spouse abuse even reported by the police in eighteen forty eight? I have found this on Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anyone who is still unsure which text to write about may or may not find this useful in decision making. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/stantonelizabeth/a/stanton.htm