Century of struggle : the woman's rights movement in the United States / Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flexner, Eleanor, 1908-1995, author.

Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. (Ellen Frances), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Edition:

Enlarged edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [1996]

Summary:

Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women’s voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics. “The book you are about to read tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women’s voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics… It is difficult to imagine now a time when women were largely removed by custom, practice, and law from the formal political rights and responsibilities that supported and sustained the nation’s young democracy… For sheer drama the suffrage movement has few equals in modern American political history.”—From the Preface by Ellen Fitzpatrick

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface, 1975

PART ONE

CHAPTER ONE The Position of American Women up to 1800

CHAPTER TWO Early Steps toward Equal Education

CHAPTER THREE The Beginnings of Organization among Women

CHAPTER FOUR The Beginnings of Reform

CHAPTER FIVE The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

CHAPTER SIX From Seneca Falls to the Civil War

PART TWO

CHAPTER SEVEN The Civil War

CHAPTER EIGHT The Intellectual Progress of Women, 1860–1875

CHAPTER NINE Women in the Trade Unions, 1860–1875

CHAPTER TEN The Emergence of a Suffrage Movement

CHAPTER ELEVEN First Victories in the West

CHAPTER TWELVE Breaking Ground for Suffrage

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Growth of Women’s Organizations

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Women in the Knights of Labor and the Early A.F. of L.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Reform Era and Woman’s Rights

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Unification of the Suffrage Movement

PART THREE

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Entering the Twentieth Century

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Into the Mainstream of Organized Labor

CHAPTER NINETEEN The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age, 1906–1913

CHAPTER TWENTY New Life in the Federal Amendment, 1914–1916

CHAPTER TWENTY- ONE The Turn of the Tide, 1916–1918

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Who Opposed Woman Suffrage?

CHAPTER TWENTY- THREE A Hard-Won Victory, 1918–1920

CHAPTER TWENTY- FOUR Conclusion

Afterword

Bibliographical Summary

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674263499

0674263499

9780674257986

0674257987

OCLC:

1252421382