Women's Rights Emerges Within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History With Documents: A Short History with Documents - Brossura

Sklar, Kathryn Kish

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ISBN 10: 0312101449 ISBN 13: 9780312101442

Casa editrice: Bedford/st Martins, 2000

Riassunto

Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimké's campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women's rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s and the emergence of race as a divisive issue that finally split that movement in 1869. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others, giving students immediate access to the world of abolitionists and women's right advocates and their passionate struggles for emancipation. Headnotes to the documents, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, questions to consider, a chronology, and an index are also included.

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Recensione:

'Sklar has produced a first-rate piece of work. Her introductory essay skilfully uses biography to explore the character of abolitionism and the ways in which the campaign for women's rights emerged from the struggle against slavery. The choice of documents is excellent and will encourage students to understand and make connections between two of the most important antebellum reform movements' - Julie Roy Jeffrey, Goucher College

'This book offers an excellent sense of the myriad issues related to race and gender that were central to the spread of abolitionism and the emergency of women's rights in antebellum America. Highly accessible and eloquently presented, this volume incorporates both interpretive text and critical documents and thus provides a superb teaching tool for undergraduate classes.' - Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University

L'autore:

KATHRYN KISH SKLAR is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Her writings focus on the history of women's participation in social movements, women's voluntary organizations, and American public culture. Her books include Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973) and Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995), both of which received the Berkshire Prize. She has received Ford, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Mellon Foundation Fellowships, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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• Editore: Bedford/st Martins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312101449
• ISBN 13: 9780312101442
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 216