Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal Moments in American History)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (612 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195393333 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 322 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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McMillen, who chairs the history department at Davidson College, presents a fine history of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, which galvanized the women's movement through the remainder of the 19th century and also affected concurrent struggles for temperance, abolition and educational reform. . 20 b&w illus. 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. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. She does an outstanding job of discussing how religion functioned as both an impetus and an obstacle to reform, and pays partic
Anthony. 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. 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. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years later, Anthony called it "the grandest and greatest reform of all time.". 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. 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. 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
"Excellent - a must-read" according to Patricia Connelly. This is a wonderful book. Although I studied feminist history in college and have been familiar with the names and deeds of the four women featured in "Seneca Falls" for years, it wasn't until reading this book that these women became human to me. The author does a stunning job of bringing th. The people part of history E. Curry What timing! Events in the lives of the four bright and strong-willed nineteenth century women highlighted in this book have heightened relevance in the current presidential election campaign. In both periods competing interests of minorities create potential conflict.The way that Professor M. Not bad, could have been better Chris I'm not sure exactly how to rate this book. On the one hand, it has lots of information, and I needed a nice refresher of the Jacksonian-era women's rights movement. On the other hand, the title of the book is very misleading, and the last chapter is endless and meandering.When I saw the titl
She lives in Davidson, North Carolina.. 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