They were two days that changed the world. The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was the first of its kind to address the topic of womens rights. Featuring excerpts from primary sources, images, and sidebars, this informative volume describes the low status held by nineteenth-century women, and how a handful of key players sought to achieve equal rights during this convention that spawned a greater movement.
Presents a history of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention and the subsequent efforts by leading organizers to obtain the right to vote for women, which finally succeeded with the passage of the Ninteenth Amendment in 1919.
Oliver Johnson closed one letter with “let the chain Offriend— ship between us be kept bright” (Johnson to Isaac Post, June 7, 1842, Post Family Papers, UR). For a less sanguine view of Quakers and the 1842 treaty, see Laurence M.
Typical of clergymen's opinions was that expressed by the minister John Weiss of New Bedford, Massachusetts, who in 1854 wrote ''The Woman Question'' for the Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany. He sprinkled his essay with ...
Miriam Gurko traces the course of the movement from its origin in the Seneca Falls Convention through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote.
Laughlin, Kathleen A., Julie Gallagher, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Ellen Boris, Premilla Nadasen, Stephanie Gilmore, and Leandra Zarnow. “Is It Time to Jump Ship? Historians Rethink the Waves Metaphor.” Feminist Formations 22, no.
In 1848 the first Women's Rights convention took place in Seneca falls, New York, convened by the suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. At the convention, a black man, Frederick Douglass, was...
In the middle of the nineteenth century women's rights became a cause for which many women were willing to fight.
A biography of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the organizers of the country's first women's rights convention, which took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
Filled with fun facts, bright photographs, which bring the text to life, this book is sure to inspire young history enthusiasts"--
These essays question whether the concept of waves surging and receding can fully capture the complexities of U.S. feminisms and suggest models for reimagining these histories from radio waves to hip-hop.