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

by McMillen, Sally

• ISBN13: 9780195182651
• ISBN10: 0195182650
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement. McMillen unpacks, for the first time, the full significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
Separate Spheres: Law, Faith, Tradition	p. 9
Fashioning a Better World	p. 35
Seneca Falls	p. 71
The Women's Movement Begins, 1850-1860	p. 104
War, Disillusionment, Division	p. 149
Friction and Reunification, 1870-1890	p. 185
Epilogue: "Make the World Better"	p. 229
Declaration of Rights and Sentiments	p. 237
"Solitude of Self," by Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Address Delivered by Mrs. Stanton before the Committee of the Judiciary, U.S. Congress, January 18, 1892	p. 242
Notes	p. 251
Acknowledgments	p. 296
Index	p. 298
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