Talk:Henry Clarke Wright

Proposed additions with footnotes to HCW article
I would like to add the following items to this site, with footnotes. If this is acceptable, can the appropriate template be created to permit the footnotes?

I would like to insert the following sentence in the paragraph on the Grimkes, before the sentence beginning “At the time he challenged....”


 * Although primary evidence reveals that Massachusetts abolitionists deliberately opened the Grimkés’ meetings to men, in the controversy that followed, Wright originated the defense that they spoke to mixed audiences only because men insisted on attending. (Million, Joelle, Woman's Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement. Praeger, 2003. ISBN 0-275-97877-X,  pp. 29-30, 284 note 23)

I would also like to add the following section before the Natick Resolution:

Support for women’s rights
On May 30, 1850, when Lucy Stone and Paulina Wright Davis held a meeting in Boston’s Melodeon Hall to consider calling a national women’s rights convention, Wright was the first of four speakers to endorse the idea, and it was he who made the motion to appoint a committee of arrangements. (Liberator, June 7, 1850; Million, 2003, p. 104) Wright was particularly interested in the issue of women’s sexual rights within marriage, and in 1855 he published Marriage and Parentage; Or, The Reproductive Element in Man, as a Means to His Elevation and Happiness. (Wright, Henry C., Marriage and Parentage; Or, The Reproductive Element in Man, as a Means to His Elevation and Happiness, 2d ed., 1855; reprint as Sex, Marriage and Society, edited by Charles Rosenberg and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, New York: Arno Press, 1974) In this book he not only advocated sexual responsibility within marriage, but in a society where abstinence was virtually the only method of birth control, he told men that love of a woman found expression more in control of sexual impulse than in indulgence, and women that it was their duty to themselves and their children not to submit to their husband’s desire if they could not happily respond. And because women bore the consequences of the sexual act, Wright said wives should govern marital sexual relations.(Million, 2003, p. 79) Although some women’s rights leaders considered the right of wives to control their bodies more basic than their other demands, they did not bring the claim to their platform until 1856. (Million, 2003, pp. 80, 206-07, 208, 211, 227-28.) It was not raised again until Wright introduced resolutions on the issue at the 1859 National Woman’s Rights Convention. (Million, 2003, p. 252.) The following year, Wright published his second book, The Unwelcome Child,(Wright, Henry C., The Unwelcome Child; Or, The Crime of an Undesigned and Undesired Child, Boston: B. Marsh, 1860) in which he again argued for women’s right to control their bodies and decline marital relations. In speeches during the summer of 1865, Wright was one of the early voices calling for suffrage “without regard to color or to sex.” (Million, 2003, p. 273) 50.139.183.79 (talk) 23:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

References need work
This article needs to be redone with proper footnotes. Very easy once you tag them correctly. Also, the incomplete reference to "John Burnham" on JStor" leads not to anything by Burnham, but to a 300 word review of a biography of Wright from the journal Church History. Suspect that biography is either the tacit source of much of the uncited material in this article--or would be a useful resource! Terraplane34 (talk) 14:16, 12 January 2018 (UTC)