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Available
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Publication
Pantheon (1987), Paperback, 352 pages
Description
An account of the feminist movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries focusing on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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LibraryThing member zoranaercegovac
The Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement, the book contains 34 illustrations marshaling through the notable American ladies including the Grimke sisters, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cadt Stanton, and many others. As Gurko writes, on July 1848, five women conversed over tea in a small upstate New York
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town. The next day, the local newspaper carried their announcement inviting women to attend A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women. Show Less
LibraryThing member PuddinTame
Miriam Gurko was inspired to write this when she listened to young feminists commenting that American women had never complained about their lot before the 1960s. Contrary to what I expected from the title, this does not focus solely on the Seneca Falls convention. It follows the ladies who
A well-written and very informative book that I would recommend to anyone interested in the topic. It deserves to be a classic.
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organized it, plus Susan B. Anthony, through the rest of their active and activist lives. The movement split painfully as they disagreed on tactics and priorities, but by the death of the longest-lived Susan B. Anthony, suffrage, originally shocking if not downright blasphemous had become a respectable cause. The modern, late twentieth century movement would pick up with many of the same issues.A well-written and very informative book that I would recommend to anyone interested in the topic. It deserves to be a classic.
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LibraryThing member chiggins
I checked this book out of my local library. I was looking for books that would help me gain a better sense of women in the late 1800's and early 1900's. What an awesome book about the early days of women's rights in the U.S.!
Subjects
Language
Original publication date
1976
Physical description
352 p.; 7.87 inches
ISBN
0805205454 / 9780805205459
Local notes
feminisms
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