memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Lisa Tetrault
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiv, 279 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Gender and American culture
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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"--
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Woman's Rights Convention(1st :1848 :, Seneca Falls, N.Y.)