"La raza y la clase en los albores de la campaña por los derechos de las mujeres", in Mujeres, raza y clase, Akal, Madrid, 2004

Abstract

This fragment shows the initial evolution of the movement for women's rights in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, and its relations with relational variables such as social class and race. In particular, it is narrated in the first place, the historical experience of the organization of the first convention on women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York.

The author points out, secondly, the affinities and tensions that existed in this first moment among middle-class white women who participated in the Seneca Falls Convention, and worker women, both whites and blacks, who demanded the abolition of slavery and the recognition of their equal rights with men. The idea behind the text is that the struggle for the rights of class, race and gender, although at first they appear separately, they were gradually intertwined and now it is possible to see that they are building a common and unique movement in favor for equality.