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

Bibliographic Data

ID20025673
AuthorsSally McMillen, McMillen McMillen, Sally Gregory McMillen
Year2008
Pages320
Publication date2008-02-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSeneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal Moments in American History) (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195182651.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388150740
ISBN9780195182651
Open LibraryOL10133786M
LanguageEN
Citations received15

In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today. In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement, the latest contribution to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, Sally McMillen unpacks, for the first time, the full significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced. The book covers 50 years of women's activism, from 1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures--Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen tells the stories of their lives, how they came to take up the cause of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes, and the lasting and transformative effects of the work they did. At the convention they asserted full equality with men, argued for greater legal rights, greater professional and education opportunities, and the right to vote--ideas considered wildly radical at the time. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years later, Anthony called it "the grandest and greatest reform of all time--and destined to be thus regarded by the future historian." In this lively and warmly written study, Sally McMillen may well be the future historian Anthony was hoping to find. A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's history, and indeed in human history, Seneca Falls is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the woman's rights movement

Aesthetics · Art · Convention · Human rights · Movement (music) · Political science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · (1st · 1848 · 19th century · American history: c 1800 to c 1900 · c 1800 to c 1900 · Feminism · Frauenbewegung · History: American · New York · Social history · united states · United States - 19th Century · United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic · USA · Woman's Rights Convention · Woman's Rights Convention (1848 : Seneca Falls, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016150503 · Woman's Rights Convention (1848) · Women · Women's rights · Women's Studies · Women's Studies - History

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