Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by Sally McMillen
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Author: Sally McMillenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-11
ISBN: 0195182650
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: Women's suffrage
Summary: 4 Stars
Not an easy read, not entertaining on a Winter's Night (stick to Hot Chocolate) this book is as complete a record of the Movement for Women's suffrage as you would ever want. It is complete with names and dates and personal vignettes on the main characters. For anyone interested in this subject or the early aspects of the women's movement, this is a must read.
Summary of Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal Moments in American History)
In a 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 woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today.In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement , the latest contribution to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, Sally McMillen unpacks, 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 1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures--Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady 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 lasting and transformative 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--and destined to be thus regarded by the future historian." In this lively and warmly written study, Sally McMillen may well be the future historian Anthony was hoping to find.
A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's history, and in human history, this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the woman's rights movement.
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