| Description |
viii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-320) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "Shall woman's voice be hushed?" -- One: the making of a reformer -- Learning woman's lot -- Separate spheres and female education -- Rousing woman's voice -- "The confounded woman question" -- A hand to be counted -- Oberlin and universal reform -- The highest good -- "All Lucy Stone's doing" -- Two: the power of an orator -- Antislavery agent -- Organizing a movement -- Speaking for women -- Divergent paths -- The converting voice -- Temperance and woman's rights -- "A hearing ear" in the West -- "Heart and soul" -- Three: testing a wife's autonomy -- Romance and politics -- Forging a true marriage -- The marriage question and woman's rights -- "The field is the world" -- Representative woman -- The path for my feet -- Taxing times -- Passing the mantle -- Expectancy. |
| Subject |
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893.
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Suffragists -- United States -- Biography.
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
027597877X alkaline paper |
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