Monday, February 20, 2017

Compare "Self-Reliance" or Walden to Woman in the Nineteenth Century as regards the responsibilities of the individual within a conformist society

Margaret Fuller, in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, advocated for
the rights of people to whom they had been denied in US society, especially women but also
enslaved African Americans. Feminism and abolitionism, both separately and in tandem, are
prominently featured in her work. Fuller identified social conventions as supporting unjust,
immoral restrictions on freedom, and advocated for social change.


As the friend of the negro assumes that one man cannot by right hold another in
bondage, so should the friend of Woman assume that Man cannot by right lay even
well-meant...



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