Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights MovementOxford University Press, 2009 M09 8 - 322 pages In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today. In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement, the latest contribution to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, Sally McMillen unpacks, for the first time, the full significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced. The book covers 50 years of women's activism, from 1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures--Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen tells the stories of their lives, how they came to take up the cause of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes, and the lasting and transformative effects of the work they did. At the convention they asserted full equality with men, argued for greater legal rights, greater professional and education opportunities, and the right to vote--ideas considered wildly radical at the time. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years later, Anthony called it "the grandest and greatest reform of all time--and destined to be thus regarded by the future historian." In this lively and warmly written study, Sally McMillen may well be the future historian Anthony was hoping to find. A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's history, and in human history, this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the woman's rights movement. |
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... later, a women's rights meeting in the town of Seneca Falls, New York, adopted a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton affirming that ''all men and women are created equal.'' During the last two decades ...
... later, a women's rights meeting in the town of Seneca Falls, New York, adopted a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton affirming that ''all men and women are created equal.'' During the last two decades ...
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... later preaching and the way she conducted her life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the driving intellect of the women's movement, a principal organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention, and the primary author of the Declaration of Rights and ...
... later preaching and the way she conducted her life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the driving intellect of the women's movement, a principal organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention, and the primary author of the Declaration of Rights and ...
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... later received wages well below what less experienced male teachers earned, she felt a profound sense of injustice. A major impetus for her interest in women's rights was a speech she read by Lucy Stone in which Lucy objected to the ...
... later received wages well below what less experienced male teachers earned, she felt a profound sense of injustice. A major impetus for her interest in women's rights was a speech she read by Lucy Stone in which Lucy objected to the ...
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... later invoked them in written records of her life, identifying this as the moment when she first vowed to achieve all that men could. To her father, Elizabeth allegedly responded, ''I will try to be all that my brother was.''1 If the ...
... later invoked them in written records of her life, identifying this as the moment when she first vowed to achieve all that men could. To her father, Elizabeth allegedly responded, ''I will try to be all that my brother was.''1 If the ...
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... later, ''There was only one will in our home, and that was my father's.''4 Living in far different circumstances while Elizabeth and Lucy were coming of age were female slaves who had none of the opportunities that Lucy and Elizabeth ...
... later, ''There was only one will in our home, and that was my father's.''4 Living in far different circumstances while Elizabeth and Lucy were coming of age were female slaves who had none of the opportunities that Lucy and Elizabeth ...
Contents
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3 Seneca Falls | 71 |
4 The Womens Movement Begins 18501860 | 104 |
5 War Disillusionment Division | 149 |
6 Friction and Reunification 18701890 | 185 |
Make the World Better | 229 |
Declaration of Rights and Sentiments | 237 |
Solitude of Self | 242 |
Notes | 251 |
Acknowledgments | 296 |
Index | 298 |
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