The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention
- ISBN-10
- 0252029046
- ISBN-13
- 9780252029042
- Series
- The Road to Seneca Falls
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 297
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-10-13
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Judith Wellman
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2010-10-01
- 320 pages
- Ebook
- University of Illinois Press
-
- 1996-01-01
- 72 pages
- Paperback
- Millbrook Press
Similar books
-
The Road to Seneca Falls: A Story about Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Creative Minds Biographies. This theme unit introduces intermediate readers to several women who changed history.
-
The Seneca Falls Convention: Working to Expand Women's Rights
By Deborah KentFeaturing excerpts from primary sources, images, and sidebars, this informative volume describes the low status held by nineteenth-century women, and how a handful of key players sought to achieve equal rights during this convention that ...
-
The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement
By Miriam GurkoMiriam Gurko traces the course of the movement from its origin in the Seneca Falls Convention through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote.
-
Starting from Seneca Falls
By Karen Schwabach... We were forty miles from Albany, forget I never shall What a terrible storm we had one night on the E-ri-e Canal. Well the Erie was a-rising, and the rum was getting low And I scarcely think we'll get a drink till we get to Buffalo.
-
Seneca Falls
By Frances T. Barbieri, Kathy Jans-DuffySeneca Falls
-
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
By Sally McMillenTypical of clergymen's opinions was that expressed by the minister John Weiss of New Bedford, Massachusetts, who in 1854 wrote ''The Woman Question'' for the Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany. He sprinkled his essay with ...
-
Returning to Seneca Falls
By Bradford MillerReturning to Seneca Falls
-
Votes for Women: Celebrating New York's Suffrage Centennial
By Jennifer A. Lemak, Ashley Hopkins-BentonELIzABETH AND ANNE MILLER: A MoTHER-DAuGHTER SuFFRAGE TEAM Elizabeth Smith Miller (1822–1911) and Anne fitzhugh Miller (1856–1912) were a mother-daughter team with reform in their blood. Elizabeth Smith Miller was the daughter of Gerrit ...
-
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
By Ellen Carol Dubois... Rachel, 127 Foster, Stephen S., 28, 75–76 “Fourteen Points” speech, 244, 250 Fourteenth Amendment, 54–57, 59, 61, 71, 85, 98, 101, 102, 104, 159, 252 proposed woman suffrage language, 56–57, 85 Fowler, Charles, 107 France, 189, 241, ...
-
Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
By Winifred ConklingFrom Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, to Sojourner Truth and her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, to Alice Paul, arrested and force-fed in prison, ...