Myth of Seneca Falls Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898

Name: Myth of Seneca Falls Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
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ISBN: 9781469614274

ISBN-10: 1469614278

ISBN-13: 9781469614274

Edition: 2014

Authors: Lisa Tetrault

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The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to internal movement dynamics as well as the racial politics of memory after the Civil War. The founding mythology that coalesced in their speeches and writings--most notably Stanton and…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/15/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Lisa Tetrault is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University.