Adam Smith's Inquiry Address to the First Women's Rights Convention" was a speech given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in order to raise voice against male chauvinism and religious bigotry and how it had been used to suppress women throughout history.

Women Rights in Eighteenth Century America

"Address to the First Women's Rights Convention" was a speech given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in order to raise voice against male chauvinism and religious bigotry and how it had been used to suppress women throughout history. The goal of this paper is to analyze the address given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the lights of broad and diverse academic resources.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton had made the commitment to improve the condition of women and elevate their status in American society. Her intellectual thinking and her ability to move out from the role of a house wife allowed her to be part of a group of women, who shared similar thoughts as herself. These women included Martha Coffin Wright, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, who concentrated on promoting women rights awareness in United States in order to empower women and to elevate their status (Baker, 34). The Seneca Falls Convention was the first convention that was organized in United States to discuss the rights of women and to ensure that women are given equal social, moral and civil rights. At this convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave her address...

Women rights does not mean that women should start wearing attires of men and nor calls for introducing a legislation that would teach men to be courteous husbands but it is a call to create a society, where women are free as men and to raise voice against the government, where the husband is the master and the wife is his slave (Bradstock & Rowland, 181). The address talks about the condition of women and how for centuries, have been suppressed by men and that she does not have property rights and is solely dependent on men. Laws discriminate against women on basis of their gender and allow men to take hold of the wages, which women earn. Furthermore, such biased laws are disgrace for Christianity. Furthermore, Stanton asserts that there is need to create an awareness of women rights in order to remove male chauvinism and bigotry.
Women have been repressed throughout the centuries and therefore, it is the time that women get their civil, moral and social rights as they rightfully belong to women. Furthermore, women have been silenced throughout…