The Social and Spiritual Dilemmas Among Women When we stop and consider the fact that women in our country were not able to vote until 1920, it is staggering to imagine the obstacles facing women during the Middle Ages. The 19th Amendment to our Constitution was ratified only after women fought for twenty years to be given the right to vote. One of the best-known leaders of the women’s suffrage movement and the first acting …showed first 75 words of 1302 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1302 total…the Archbishop that she would stop talking about her spiritual knowledge. She defended herself even though she knew she could get killed for her beliefs. Her description of having defied the Archbishop could be interpreted as one of the first “feminist” actions we know of from the medieval times. Her narrative is a real story and in it, she is outspoken about her belief that she is qualified to be an interpreter of Holy Scripture.