Century of struggle : the woman's rights movement in the United States. Cover Image

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Century of struggle : the woman's rights movement in the United States.

Flexner, Eleanor, 1908-1995 (Author). Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. (Ellen Frances) (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0674106539 (pbk. : for the enl. ed.)
ISBN: 0674106547 (cloth : for the enl. ed.)
Physical Description: xxxiv, 398 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition: Enl. ed. / Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick.
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Ellen Fitzpatrick -- 1. The Position of 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 -- 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 -- 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. The Turn of the Tide, 1916-1918 -- 22. Who Opposed Woman Suffrage? -- 23. A Hard-Won Victory, 1918-1920 -- 24. Conclusion.