The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.
I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
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