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1st ed. |
| Description |
277 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index. |
| Contents |
The martyr and the missionary : Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell -- In the blessed company of faithful women : Susan B. Anthony and the sisters -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the solitude of self -- Mothering America : the feminist ambitions of Frances Willard -- Endgame : Alice Paul and Woodrow Wilson. |
| Summary |
They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women were the first to picket the White House for a political cause) and violent (women were arrested, jailed, and force-fed in prisons). And like every revolutionary before them, their struggle was personal. |
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activists who made these changes possible.
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Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
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Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933.
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Feminists. (OCoLC)fst00922831
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Women -- Suffrage.
(OCoLC)fst01176996
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
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Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
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| Chronological Term |
1865-1933
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780809095285 |
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0809095289 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780809095285 |
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99811056272 |
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