1848 was a year of revolution. In the United States, several determined women in upstate New York drafted a declaration of rights modeled on the 1776 Declaration of Independence and held a convention, which was attended by almost 300 women and men. The Seneca Falls Convention, writes Harriet Sigerman, launched the formal women's rights movement in the United States. It was one of many historical events in which American women left their mark in the years between 1848 and 1865. This period also witnessed the expansion of the nation's boundaries and new settlements out West, the conflagration of the Civil War, and the nation's emergence as an industrial power. American women played a vital role in all of these events, as homesteaders, factory workers, nurses, physicians, army scouts and spies, and social reformers. Among the women featured in this volume are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the chief architects of the organized women's rights movement; Sojourner Truth, a powerful African-American orator who spoke for women's rights; Clara Barton, the dedicated Civil War nurse; and Harriet Tubman, a former slave who returned to the South more than 300 times to help free other slaves. Their stories and others tell of the setbacks and triumphs as women continued to fight for equal rights for all.
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About the Author:
Harriet Sigerman is the author of Laborers for Liberty: American Women 1865-1890 and Land of Many Hands: Women in the American West. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was a researcher there for the Stanton Anthony Papers. She lives in New Jersey.
From School Library Journal:
Grade 7 Up?An Unfinished Battle discusses the lives of slaves, women on the frontier, and early factory workers as well as the rise of educated females breaking ground in fields such as medicine and literature. Sigerman shows how the women's movement grew and its connections to both the abolition and temperance movements. The last chapter discusses women and the Civil War. In New Paths to Power, Smith discusses the effect of emerging technologies and the study of domestic science on women in the home. She contrasts the role of middle-class women with that of immigrants and other poor people who did domestic, factory, and other manual work. Discussing how opportunities for education and employment widened after the turn of the century, she highlights several figures such as Jane Addams and Isadora Duncan. She also focuses on the suffrage movement, ending with the passage of the 19th amendment. Both authors lay out the story of women's lives and accomplishments within the context of political and social history. The books are clearly written and cover a breadth of material in an interesting and understandable style. Black-and-white historical drawings and photographs significantly enrich the texts. While there have been a number of other titles on women in America, none includes the detail provided here. Very useful for students, but interesting reading for personal study as well.?Jane Gardner Connor, South Carolina State Library, Columbia
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0195124030
- ISBN 13 9780195124033
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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