Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
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 of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes, and the far-reaching effects of the work they did. It's an in-depth and powerful look at how a single event changed the course of American history.
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"After a splendid introductory chapter that outlines the legal injustices most women suffered (typically, they could not vote, hold property or receive equal pay for their work), McMillen describes the convention itself, about which we know relatively little (Stanton gave it just two sentences in her mammoth memoir) and then traces its unexpectedly weighty impact on reformers through the decades.... a well-written and cogent synthesis accessible to the general reader while remaining firmly grounded in primary sources." — Publishers Weekly
Product Details
| Recommended Age | Adults |
|---|---|
| Author | Sally McMillen |
| ISBN | 0195393333 |
| Publication Date | Sep 8, 2009 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Language | English |