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The Road to Seneca Falls : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention /

Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States and beyond. In The Road To Seneca Falls, Judith Wellman offers the first well documented, full-length account of this historic meeting in its conte...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wellman, Judith
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part 1. The context : converging paths
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton : growing up, 1815-35
  • Entering the world of reform : antislavery and women's rights, 1835-40
  • Communities in transition : Seneca Falls and Waterloo, 1795-1840
  • Part 2. The movements : parallel paths
  • Minding the light : Quaker traditions in a changing world
  • Seneca Falls : abolitionist ferment
  • Women and legal reform in New York State
  • Part 3. Converging paths : the event
  • Adversity and transcendence, June 1847-June 1848
  • Declaring women's rights, July 1848
  • The road from Seneca Falls, 1848-1982.