Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index.
Contents
Setting the Stage -- Through the Civil War Precursors Changes in Woman's Status -- Reconstruction -- The Dawn of a New Day? The Political and Economic Stakes in the War's Aftermath Toward Organizing -- The Woman's Rights Convention of 1866 -- The Broadest Platform -- The American Equal Rights Association -- 1866-1867 Fissures over Priorities -- New York Constitutional Convention and the Kansas Suffrage Campaigns, 1867 -- The Struggle for Control, 1868 -- The Rivals -- The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association Unity -- The Attempt and Failure -- 1870 The Side Issues of Contention -- Suffrage, Marriage, Divorce, and Sex Political Action Organized Labor and Woman's Rights -- The Positive Phase The Labor-Woman's Rights Coalition Breaks Apart The Woman's Rights Press -- Epiloque From the Suffrage Victory to the Future of Woman's Rights.