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The Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists /

Recovering the powerful and influential intellectual contributions of women from the nation's formative years, The Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Vetter, Lisa Pace, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: political theory and the founding of American feminism
  • Lifting the "Claud-Lorraine tint" over the Republic: Frances Wright's critique
  • Of society and manners in America
  • Harriet Martineau on the theory and practice of democracy in America
  • Facing the "sledge hammer of truth": Angelina Grimke and the rhetoric of reform
  • Sarah Grimke's Quaker liberalism
  • "The most belligerent non-resistant": Lucretia Mott on women's rights
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton's rhetoric of ridicule and reform
  • The shadow and the substance of Sojourner Truth
  • Conclusion.