Title Seneca Falls and the origins of the women's rights movement / Sally G. McMillen

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : portraits Series Pivotal moments in American history Pivotal moments in American history. Contents Separate spheres : law, faith, tradition -- Fashioning a better world -- Seneca Falls -- The women's movement begins, 1850-1860 -- War, disillusionment, division -- Friction and reunification, 1870-1890 -- Epilogue : "Make the world better" -- Appendix Summary 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 theOrigins 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. At the convention they asserted full equality with men, argued for greater legal rights, greater professional and education opportunities, and the right to vote - ideas considered wildly radical at the time. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years later, Anthony called it "the grandest and greatest reform of all time." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-295) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Seneca Falls (N.Y.) -- Woman's Rights Convention (1848) swd Woman's Rights Convention (1st : 1848 : Seneca Falls, N.Y.) Woman's Rights Convention fast Woman's Rights Convention 1848 Seneca Falls, NY gnd Subject Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory. Feminism Frauenbewegung Kvinnorörelsen -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet. Medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter. Feminism -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1800-talet. Kvinnorörelsen -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1800-talet. United States USA Genre/Form History dissertations. Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780198040262 0198040261 9781435638792 1435638794 0195182650 9780195182651 9780195393330 0195393333

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