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The Road to Seneca Falls - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention (Paperback, New)
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The Road to Seneca Falls - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention (Paperback, New)
Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
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Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca
Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the
United States and beyond. In The Road To Seneca Falls, Judith
Wellman offers the first well documented, full-length account of
this historic meeting in its contemporary context. The convention
succeeded by uniting powerful elements of the antislavery movement,
radical Quakers, and the campaign for legal reform under a common
cause. Wellman shows that these three strands converged not only in
Seneca Falls, but also in the life of women's rights pioneer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is this convergence, she argues, that
foments one of the greatest rebellions of modern times. Rather than
working heavy-handedly downward from their official "Declaration of
Sentiments," Wellman works upward from richly detailed documentary
evidence to construct a complex tapestry of causes that lay behind
the convention, bringing the struggle to life. Her approach results
in a satisfying combination of social, community, and reform
history with individual and collective biographical elements. The
Road to Seneca Falls challenges all of us to reflect on what it
means to be an American trying to implement the belief that "all
men and women are created equal," both then and now. A fascinating
story in its own right, it is also a seminal piece of scholarship
for anyone interested in history, politics, or gender.
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