The myth of Seneca Falls : memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898 / Lisa Tetrault.
2014
JK1896 .T48 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
The myth of Seneca Falls : memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898 / Lisa Tetrault.
ISBN
9781469633503 (paperback)
1469633507 (paperback)
9781469614274 (hardcover)
1469614278 (hardcover)
1469633507 (paperback)
9781469614274 (hardcover)
1469614278 (hardcover)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
JK1896 .T48 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
324.6/23097309034
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Gender & American culture.
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Table of Contents
Woman's day in the Negro's hour: 1865-1870
Movements without memories: 1870-1873
Women's rights from the bottom up: 1873-1880
Inventing women's history: 1880-1886
Commemoration and its discontents: 1888-1898.
Movements without memories: 1870-1873
Women's rights from the bottom up: 1873-1880
Inventing women's history: 1880-1886
Commemoration and its discontents: 1888-1898.