The Study on Susan B. Anthony and Her Leadership in Women''s Rights Movement

• Main Authors: Ying-Chuan Chen, 陳瀅娟
• Other Authors: Thomas B. Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15389137947991196694

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 美國研究所 === 90 === Abstract: The beginning of American women’s rights movement, Seneca Falls Convention, started in 1848. The suffragists declared that all men and women were created equal; that they were endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. The governments were instituted to secure these rights. The suffragists were struggled for the natural rights. In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, and women were granted suffrage. The first wave of American women’s movement finally succeed. Many women devoted themselves to American women’s movement, and Susan B. Anthony was one of them. Anthony strived for women’s movement for sixty years, and the power of support was her ideas and wills. Through women’s movement Anthony practiced her women rights’ thoughts. In the early period, her women rights’ thoughts diverged, therefore, she joined different women’s organizations. At last, the suffragists cooperated with abolitionists. In 1869, the relation between them ruptured. Moreover, the suffragists had different attitudes toward the Fourteenth Amendment, becoming the cause of separation. Afterwards the suffrage organization split into two. Anthony learned that women’s movement must depended on women themselves. In the late period of Anthony’s leadership in women’s movement, the only goal was to pass another constitutional amendment to grant women suffrage. To implement her advocacy, she voted illegally and challenged the American Judicatory. To promote the concept of equal rights, she traveled around the whole country including the big cities and poor countryside to make speeches. In order to continue the women’s movement, Anthony cultivated many superior leaders. The main aim of her endeavor was to return women’s inalienable rights. The main purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between Susan B. Anthony and American women’s movement. This study examined the background of American women’s movement in the nineteen-century and researched the enlightened causes and characters of Anthony’s women rights’ thoughts. Also, this study indicated Anthony’s thoughts and practices during the early and late periods of her joining and leading women’s movement. Furthermore, the study attempted to analyze the turning point and her influences in American women’s movement. The structures of this thesis as follows:Chapter one is the introduction in this study. Chapter two describes the background of the women’s movement in the nineteen-century. Chapter three researches the early period of Susan B. Anthony’s women rights’ thoughts and her practices in the women’s movement. Chapter four analyzes the late period of Susan B. Anthony’s women rights’ thoughts and her leadership in the women’s movement. Chapter five explores Susan B. Anthony’s influences of the women’s movement. Chapter six is the conclusion.