Sumblog 4
Harriet Martineau formulated a comparative method for studying
societies and analyzed the new American culture by measuring it against
carefully stated principles. Quite possibly, she wrote the first
"methodological essay" ever published, How to Observe Morals and
Manners. She made enough profit from this one book supplement her income for
the entire revolution.
Harriet Martineau was a lifelong feminist, and she became one
early and on her own. "The woman question" was what she and other
like-minded nineteenth-century thinkers and activists called what we call
feminism. In addition to giving her
individual attention to women and women's concerns Martineau participated in
groups in both England and the United States that were fertile environments for
deliberate efforts on women's behalf. Probably not too much should be made of
the fact that she wrote admiringly of women writers in her first published
piece ("Female Writers of Practical Divinity") or that she went to
some length to establish the fact that the form she used for her political
economy tales was derived from a woman. Still, these attributions acknowledged
influences from women that she valued from the first.
Claudette Colvin Was First to Refuse Giving Up Seat on Montgomery Bus in March of 1955. She was just fifteen years old (She was not pregnant when she was on the bus, it was shortly after). Most people know about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott that began in 1955, but few know that there were a number of women who refused to give up their seats on the same bus system. Why are some people not acknowledged for what they have accomplished?
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