The myth of Seneca Falls : memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898 /
"The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's su...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
UNC Press law publications. Women and the law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to internal movement dynamics as well as the racial politics of memory after the Civil War"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-268) and index. |