The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071F325S2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 505 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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What happened to Equal Rights for Women? Dr. Samuel Mahaffy Learn from the early history of the woman's suffrage movement. Remember the significant contribution that the Quaker's made. Wonder that today we still have so far to go to ensure equal rights for women. When women do not have equal rights we are all diminished.. A must for an understanding of those times. Contributed vastly to my knowledge of what went on in the era of the "Burnt Over District." Scholarly but accessible.. Tighter editing needed rosemary dilworth Interesting topic but really could use some good editing. Way too detailed for my taste. It seemed like the book got off course with so much focus on abolition even though that was a big part of the story of women's suffrage.
The book is published by University of Illinois Press.. A fascinating story in its own right, it is also a seminal piece of scholarship for anyone interested in history, politics, or gender. Rather than working heavy-handedly downward from their official Declaration of Sentiments, Wellman works upward from richly detailed documentary evidence to construct a complex tapestry of causes that lay behind the convention, bringing the struggle to life. Account of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the beginning of the US woman's ri