Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition

by Eleanor Flexner, Ellen Fitzpatrick

Overview

Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women’s voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.

“The book you are about to read tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women’s voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics… It is difficult to imagine now a time when women were largely removed by custom, practice, and law from the formal political rights and responsibilities that supported and sustained the nation’s young democracy… For sheer drama the suffrage movement has few equals in modern American political history.”—From the Preface by Ellen Fitzpatrick

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674263499
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1996
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Eleanor Flexner (1908–1995), a writer, also wrote American Playwrights: 1918–1938 and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Ellen Fitzpatrick is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword by Ellen Fitzpatrick Preface, 1975 Part One Chapter 1. The Position of American Women up to 1800 Chapter 2. Early Steps toward Equal Education Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Organization among Women Chapter 4. The Beginnings of Reform Chapter 5. The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 Chapter 6. From Seneca Falls to the Civil War Part Two Chapter 7. The Civil War Chapter 8. The Intellectual Progress of Women, 1860–1875 Chapter 9. Women in the Trade Unions, 1860–1875 Chapter 10. The Emergence of a Suffrage Movement Chapter 11. First Victories in the West Chapter 12. Breaking Ground for Suffrage Chapter 13. The Growth of Women’s Organizations Chapter 14. Women in the Knights of Labor and the Early A.F. of L. Chapter 15. The Reform Era and Woman’s Rights Chapter 16. The Unification of the Suffrage Movement Part Three Chapter 17. Entering the Twentieth Century Chapter 18. Into the Mainstream of Organized Labor Chapter 19. The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age, 1906–1913 Chapter 20. New Life in the Federal Amendment, 1914–1916 Chapter 21. The Turn of the Tide, 1916–1918 Chapter 22. Who Opposed Woman Suffrage? Chapter 23. A Hard-Won Victory, 1918–1920 Chapter 24. Conclusion Afterword Bibliographical Summary Notes Acknowledgments Index

What People are Saying About This

A book to be read by every student in this country...This account will help us to maintain a truer image of ourselves as we try to finish up the struggle first launched so long ago.

Editorial Reviews

Never before…has a book done more to relate the women’s rights movement in the United States to the centuries-old struggle of the individual to attain his (or her) full stature in society. Woman’s fight for the franchise is here presented, not as a separate shred torn from history, but as part of the warp and woof of national progress… Miss Flexner admirably refrains from idealizing her subjects, rightly judging that the facts need no gilding to show in true proportions the stature of these valiant women.

Christian Science Monitor

A book to be read by every student in this country… This account will help us to maintain a truer image of ourselves as we try to finish up the struggle first launched so long ago.

Betty Friedan

Miss Flexner’s well-documented text is brightened by vignettes of…stout and colorful personalities… Her book has depth and amplitude.

New York Times Book Review

Miss Flexner's well-documented text is brightened by vignettes of...stout and colorful personalities... Her book has depth and amplitude.-- "New York Times Book Review"

Never before...has a book done more to relate the women's rights movement in the United States to the centuries-old struggle of the individual to attain his (or her) full stature in society. Woman's fight for the franchise is here presented, not as a separate shred torn from history, but as part of the warp and woof of national progress... Miss Flexner admirably refrains from idealizing her subjects, rightly judging that the facts need no gilding to show in true proportions the stature of these valiant women.-- "Christian Science Monitor"

A book to be read by every student in this country... This account will help us to maintain a truer image of ourselves as we try to finish up the struggle first launched so long ago.--Betty Friedan

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