Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal Moments in American History) - Brossura

McMillen, Sally G.

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ISBN 10: 0195393333 ISBN 13: 9780195393330

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Riassunto

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. 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"

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Informazioni sull'autore

Sally McMillen is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Department Chair at Davidson College. She is the author of Motherhood in the Old South and Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South. She lives in Davidson, North Carolina.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195393333
• ISBN 13: 9780195393330
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
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