Anthony but there have been many others who have helped women throughout history. Early women's rights activists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, were weakened and dejected when "the New Amendment threw white women 'under the heel of the lowest orders of manhood'" (Mink and Smith 2) because women were not important during the Civil War. But what started it all was the “Declaration of Sentiments” which, created by Stanton, stated that “'all men and women [were] created equal'” (Feminism 2) that the Constitution stated that the People were . Although this didn't actually help women, this was the launching pad for the women's rights movement which later gained many rights such as the right to vote in 1920, the Roe v. Wade who gave women the right to body privacy in the mid 70's and many more recent events starting in the 80's. There were many people who played an important role in laying these stones alongside Stanton and Anthony, these women were Susan Moller Okin (who fought for self-sufficiency), Alison Jagger and Iris Marion Young (who fought for support economic) and Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin (who wanted to change the way men saw women). Not only did these women want change in this moment, but also for future generations who would not have to go through what women had to go through to gain these rights that women
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