Sally McMillen

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

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 women's rights movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780195393330
• ISBN-10: 0195393333
• Artikelnr.: 26400412

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Separate Spheres: Law, Faith, Tradition
2: Fashioning a Better World
3: Seneca Falls
4: The Woman's Movement Begins, 1850 - 1860
5: War, Disillusionment, Division
6: Friction and Reunification, 1870 - 1890
Epilogue: "Make the World Better"
Appendices
The 1848 Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
"Solitude of Self," Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Endnotes
Index
Acknowledgments