Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition

Eleanor Flexner; Ellen Fitzpatrick

Published by Harvard University Press 1996

Century of Struggle

The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition

Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674257986

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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.

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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 Friedan

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Ellen Fitzpatrick Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface, 1975 Publicly Available Download PDF	xxviii
PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE The Position of American Women up to 1800 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER TWO Early Steps toward Equal Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
CHAPTER THREE The Beginnings of Organization among Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
CHAPTER FOUR The Beginnings of Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
CHAPTER FIVE The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
CHAPTER SIX From Seneca Falls to the Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
PART TWO
CHAPTER SEVEN The Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
CHAPTER EIGHT The Intellectual Progress of Women, 1860–1875 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
CHAPTER NINE Women in the Trade Unions, 1860–1875 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
CHAPTER TEN The Emergence of a Suffrage Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
CHAPTER ELEVEN First Victories in the West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
CHAPTER TWELVE Breaking Ground for Suffrage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Growth of Women’s Organizations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Women in the Knights of Labor and the Early A.F. of L. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Reform Era and Woman’s Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Unification of the Suffrage Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
PART THREE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Entering the Twentieth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Into the Mainstream of Organized Labor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
CHAPTER NINETEEN The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age, 1906–1913 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
CHAPTER TWENTY New Life in the Federal Amendment, 1914–1916 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
CHAPTER TWENTY- ONE The Turn of the Tide, 1916–1918 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Who Opposed Woman Suffrage? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
CHAPTER TWENTY- THREE A Hard-Won Victory, 1918–1920 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
CHAPTER TWENTY- FOUR Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
Bibliographical Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 432

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Published: March 1, 1996
ISBN: 9780674257986