The myth of Seneca Falls
Subtitle: memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898
By: Lisa Tetrault
Series: Gender and American culture
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781469614274; 9781469614281
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Suffragists; Women; Women's rights; Woman's Rights Convention (1st : 1848 : Seneca Falls, N.Y.); Suffrage; History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-268) and index.