Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition / Edition 3

by Eleanor Flexner, Ellen Fitzpatrick

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674106536
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1996
Edition description:	Enlarged Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

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

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.

Editorial Reviews

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

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

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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