rights and protect women from their tyrannical husbands" (Brinkley). The Antebellum reform movements created a new wave of women's rights movements. "Transcendentalism and utopian communities each had a sense of feminism within them. John Humphrey's image of a perfect community, Oneida Community, rejected the "traditional" ideas of family and marriage. Instead of just the mother taking care of a child, the whole community helps out. In Ann Lee's Shaker Society, the residents committed to celibacy. Men and women were equal in all aspects and god was neither male nor female. Utopian societies were "perfect" worlds that many people in this time period created. So women being viewed as equals in almost all of them was a big step in the women's rights …show more content…
One reform was entirely focused on giving women more rights. Women living in the mid eighteen hundreds had to deal with "traditional" limitations placed on them. They were expected to focus all their time and energy on their homes and children. Their husbands were left to make all the money. Because of the constant limitations placed on women, many became angry and decided to do something about it. A group of women led a movement that started a revolution in the fight for women's rights. These exceptional women were the Grimke sister, the Stowe sisters, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Dorothy Dix. They were originally abolitionists, but then they started to make connections between their abolitionist ideas and the goals they wanted to achieve for women. In 1848, these trailblazing women organized a convention at Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women's rights. This convention led to the creation and signing of the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions", this called for the