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The Myth of Seneca Falls. Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898.
Lisa Tetrault
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Paperback. Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
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. The founding mythology that coalesced in ... Read more
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. The founding mythology that coalesced in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Gender and American Culture
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469633503
SKU
V9781469633503
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About Lisa Tetrault
Lisa Tetrault is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University.
Reviews for The Myth of Seneca Falls. Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898.
Tetrault expertly unpacks the myth of Seneca Falls by examining the messy history of the leaders in the post-Civil War women's rights movement.-Choice All historians would benefit from reading Tetrault's study and giving thought to the construction of memory narratives-American Historical Review This book should be read by anyone interested in women's history as well as the history ... Read more