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Author Tetrault, Lisa (Lisa Marguerite)

Title The myth of Seneca Falls : memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898 / Lisa Tetrault.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  324.623 T29    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  973 TERAULT    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  324.623 TE    Check Shelf
Description 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Summary "The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to internal movement dynamics as well as the racial politics of memory after the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Woman's day in the Negro's hour: 1865-1870 -- Movements without memories: 1870-1873 -- Women's rights from the bottom up: 1873-1880 -- Inventing women's history: 1880-1886 -- Commemoration and its discontents: 1888-1898.
Subject Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
Suffragists -- United States -- History.
Women's rights -- United States.
Woman's Rights Convention (1st : 1848 : Seneca Falls, N.Y.)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Woman's Rights Convention. (OCoLC)fst01406602
Suffragists. (OCoLC)fst01137197
Women -- Suffrage. (OCoLC)fst01176996
Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9781469614274 (hardback)
1469614278 (hardback)
9781469614281 (ebook)
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