Womens rights essays

Women's rights essays Over the years women have always fought for their rights: for the right to vote, for the right to fight among the men in the Army and even for the right to get paid the same amount for doing the same work as men. Most of the fights were for rights that were guaranteed to women by the constitution but were denied. Over the decades women have also fought for something that the American people have enjoyed over the years with ease of mind: birth control. Not only did the women of the United States fight for the rights they are passionate about but they also opened up the doors for the subject that is not anymore considered Taboo or wrong. Now everyone who is sexually active can gain information on contraceptives. In Women and Power in American History, Linda Gordon tells the story of how one woman named Margaret Sanger struggled to get a license for a clinic that she was running to be able to give information on contraceptives. While Jessie M. Rodrique informed the public through the bo ok about the African Americans struggle not only to provide the contraceptive information for their people but also to provide a better standing for themselves. Sex radicals who began the birth-control movement before the First World War were amateurs. (Gordon, 127) From the beginning the author lets the reader know that the fight for contraceptive that Sanger fought was started of in the wrong way. The amateurs as the writer describes them, were mostly men, they had no professional or socially recognized expertise in sexology. (Gordon, 127) Even before the writer introduces Sanger to the reader, the character of Sanger is build up to be a professional, educated woman, in at least the sexology background. The writer continues to praise and emphasize more about the greatness of Sanger, ...Sanger was an important factor in facilitating, even encouraging the professionalization of the birth control moveme...