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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wellman, Judith
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, > 1815-1902.
Women's rights > New York (State) > Seneca Falls > History.
Feminists > United States > Biography.
Woman's Rights Convention > (1st : > 1848 : > Seneca Falls, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.