Seneca Falls and the origins of the women's rights movement

by Sally Gregory McMillen

Paper Book, 2008

Status

Available

Series

Pivotal Moments in American History (2008)

Genres

Politics, Government, Law and Public Policy

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Description

Seneca Falls: Table of Contents. Introduction. 1. Separate Spheres: Law, Faith, Tradition. 2. Fashioning a Better World. 3. Seneca Falls. 4. The Woman's Movement Begins, 1850 - 1860. 5. War, Disillusionment, Division. 6. Friction and Reunification, 1870 - 1890. Epilogue: ""Make the World Better"". Appendices. The 1848 Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. ""Solitude of Self,"" Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Endnotes. Index. Acknowledgments

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LibraryThing member chosler

Part of the Oxford Pivotal Moments in American History series - covers the nascent women’s rights movement up to the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, and then the subsequent efforts to attain rights through the 1890s. Centers around four leading women in the movement: Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Caddy

Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, and Susan B. Anthony. A chapter on the social, legal, political, and religious realities for women is followed by one on the Convention, and then the split of the movement and eventual reunification. Special attention is paid to the movement’s relation to the abolition and temperance movements. Some talk of birth control and prostitution, and a sex scandal. Annoying habit of only referring to the major four women by their first names.

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