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Elizabeth Cady Stantons Seneca Falls Keynote Address and Judith Sargent Murrays treatise On the Equality of the Sexes are both quintessential feminist works.

Compare the ideas that these two women share through their respective compositions. Do they offer similar grievances about culture and society? Do they present similar goals for women in their discussions? Do they present similar arguments as to why the rights of women should equal those of men?

Murrays essay was published in Massachusetts Magazine in 1790, two years after she first wrote it; while Stanton presented her keynote address in 1848, close to sixty years after the publication of the Murray essay (eighty years after she wrote it). Discuss any contrasts you might find in these two works. Are their points of focus that one woman uses that the other does not? Are there any differences in the way the ideas are presented, considering one was a speech and the other appeared in print? What about the time between each of the works? Does eighty years affect the ideas in one work versus the other?

Make 3-4 specific connections to the text. Use facts, details, examples, and direct quotes to support your claims. First brainstorm and outline by developing a list of similarities and differences.

Criteria:

• 300 words minimum (excluding quotations and citations)
• Include two properly integrated and cited paraphrased quotations (one from each work) to support your claims. See the Literary Analysis Tools Module from this week’s activities for information about integrating and citing quotes

https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/murray/equality/equality.html