American journalist and women advocate Margaret Fuller. Bright young woman, Fuller composed and lectured the inequalities of her time. She is sighted as foremost feminist in American history, a time where transcendentalism, through reason gains knowledge. Her book Women in the Nineteenth Century, she expresses how women and men are parallel.
Carol explains what Fuller really wanted and advocated but wouldn’t be done due to the culture of that time. “She demonstrates that social harmony must derive from a balance relationship between the sexes, that her own society was grossly imbalanced from the overvaluation of that considered male and comparable undervalued of that considered female.” (p3) Fuller eve writes in her book that men and women are the same. “…then and only then, will mankind be ripe for this, when inward and outward freedom for women as much for man shall be acknowledged as a right…” (p16). Her encouragement for female equality was in an era of difficulty, because it went against cultural role of being subservient. What Fuller argued the most and what was between the lines was that human are all equal. Basic foundation of this nation and she reason with mythology and intelligence.
Kessler, Carol Farley. "My Heart Is a Large Kingdom": Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller/Transfiguring America: Myth, Ideology, and Mourning in Margaret Fuller's Writing (Book). NWSA Journal; Summer2003, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p171, 5p
Fuller, Margaret. Women in the Nineteenth Century. Dove Publication
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I found it interesting that Fuller merely wanted equality of women over a more powerful dominance over men. She was asking for the very least that society could do to corrects its' wrongs.
ReplyDeleteMargret fuller was a revolutionary thinker of her time. What we now think of as common place should not be forgotten to have been a hard fought battle. Though compared to the past is feminism still worth fighting for? Considering that for the most part the genders are equal.
ReplyDeleteFuller did want to make everyone believe that women are equal to men, but at this time, passing an idea such of this was to radical to be effective immediately. Instead, maybe you should of started at that women should be more equal then they are, but not as much as men so that the change would not be so drastic.
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