Woman's voice, woman's place : Lucy Stone and the birth of the woman's rights movement / Joelle Million.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Million, Joelle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893.

Stone, Lucy.

Suffragists--United States--Biography.

Suffragists.

United States.

Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.

Women's rights.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Summary:

The work and influence of one of antebellum America's most famous orators and activists establishes her as the early movement's central figure and driving force.

Contents:

1. Introduction: "Shall Woman's Voice Be Hushed?" 1

1 The Making of a Reformer 3

2. Learning Woman's Lot 5

3. Separate Spheres and Female Education 15

4. Rousing Woman's Voice 21

5. "The Confounded Woman Question" 33

6. A Hand to Be Counted 43

7. Oberlin and Universal Reform 53

8. The Highest Good 65

9. "All Lucy Stone's Doing" 77

2 The Power of an Orator 89

10. Antislavery Agent 91

11. Organizing a Movement 101

12. Speaking for Women 111

13. Divergent Paths 121

14. The Converting Voice 129

15. Temperance and Woman's Rights 139

16. "A Hearing Ear" in the West 153

17. "Heart and Soul" 165

3 Testing a Wife's Autonomy 175

18. Romance and Politics 177

19. Forging a True Marriage 191

20. The Marriage Question and Woman's Rights 203

21. "The Field Is the World" 213

22. Representative Woman 225

23. The Path for My Feet 233

24. Taxing Times 243

25. Passing the Mantle 257

26. Expectancy 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-320) and index.

ISBN:

027597877X

OCLC:

51222131