The Voyage of Life and Equal Opportunity
The Voyage of Life and Equal Opportunity
This chapter examines the contention by women's rights activists that every individual should be given an equal opportunity to navigate his or her own voyage of life. It considers the temporal idea of maturation and womanhood that challenged the spatial metaphors of separate spheres for the sexes and segregation for the races, as well as the use of chronological age to define the rights and duties of older Americans. More specifically, it analyzes the argument that age twenty-one must become a transition to full citizenship for all Americans. Finally, it discusses the views of Frances Harper and Sojourner Truth regarding the moral maturity of black women.
Keywords: women's rights, equal opportunity, voyage of life, maturation, chronological age, full citizenship, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, moral maturity, black women
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