Century of Struggle
The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition
3rd Edition
Published on 1. March 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-674-10653-6 (ISBN)
Description
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
"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
Reviews / Votes
Miss Flexner's well-documented text is brightened by vignettes of...stout and colorful personalities... Her book has depth and amplitude. * New York Times Book Review * Never before...has a book done more to relate the women's rights movement in the United States to the centuries-old struggle of the individual to attain his (or her) full stature in society. Woman's fight for the franchise is here presented, not as a separate shred torn from history, but as part of the warp and woof of national progress... Miss Flexner admirably refrains from idealizing her subjects, rightly judging that the facts need no gilding to show in true proportions the stature of these valiant women. * Christian Science Monitor * A book to be read by every student in this country... This account will help us to maintain a truer image of ourselves as we try to finish up the struggle first launched so long ago. -- Betty FriedanMore details
Edition
3rd Enlarged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Illustrations
2 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-10653-6 (9780674106536)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Eleanor Flexner (1908-1995), a writer, also wrote American Playwrights: 1918-1938 and Mary Wollstonecraft. Ellen Fitzpatrick is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.
Content
Foreword by Ellen Fitzpatrick Preface, 1975 PART ONE 1. The Position 0f American Women up to 1800 2. Early Steps toward Equal Education 3. The Beginnings of Organization among Women 4. The Beginnings of Reform 5. The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 6. From Seneca Falls to the Civil War PART TWO 7. The Civil War 8. The Intellectual Progress of Women, 1860-1875 9. Women in the Trade Unions, 1860-1875 10. The Emergence of a Suffrage Movement 11. First Victories in the West 12. Breaking Ground for Suffrage 13. The Growth of Women's Organizations 14. Women in the Knights of Labor and the Early A.F. of L. 15. The Reform Era and Woman's Rights 16. The Unification of the Suffrage Movement PART THREE 17. Entering the Twentieth Century 18. Into the Mainstream of Organized Labor 19. The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age, 1906-1913 20. New Life in the Federal Amendment, 1914-1916 21. TheTurn oftheTide, 1916-1918 22. Who Opposed Woman Suffrage? 23. A Hard-Won Victory, 1918-1920 24. Conclusion Afterword Bibliographical Summary Notes Acknowledgments Index