Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement

Name: Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
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ISBN: 9780195393330

ISBN-10: 0195393333

ISBN-13: 9780195393330

Edition: 2009

Authors: Sally McMillen

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In the 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 women's rights movement and change the course of history. In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement, Sally McMillen reveals, 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 to 1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures--Mott, Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen tells the stories of their lives, how they came to take up the cause…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



Separate Spheres: Law, Faith, Tradition



Fashioning a Better World



Seneca Falls



The Woman's Movement Begins, 1850 - 1860



War, Disillusionment, Division



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