Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848–1869

Ellen Carol DuBois

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

Feminism and Suffrage

The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848–1869

Ellen Carol DuBois

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711817

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In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue generally perceived as nineteenth-century. For this new...

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Ellen Carol DuBois is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her most recent books are Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights and Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage.

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This thoughtful and highly readable analysis is a valuable contribution to both the history of feminism and the history of nineteenth-century America.

Robin Morgan:

The women's suffrage movement is commonly viewed in one of two ways: as completely synonymous with nineteenth-century feminism, or as a corruption, a dilution of it. DuBois shows that neither analysis is accurate but that both political paths converged into a social movement that affected American history at least as much as the black liberation and labor movements—whose support it failed to win.... DuBois has given us a work of scholarly insight written in an animated style; she is generous in her portraits of and quotes from the foremothers. For feminists today, this book is a critical reminder that alliances are best made from a position of independently acquired strength.

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Acknowledgments Ellen Carol DuBois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter One. Women's Rights before the Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter Two. The Fourteenth Amendment and the American Equal Rights Association Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter Three. The Kansas Campaign of 1867 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter Four. The Search for Allies: The Democratic Party and the National Labor Union Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter Five. The Search for a Constituency: The Working Women's Association Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: U.S. History; Gender Studies

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Published: June 30, 2019
ISBN: 9781501711817