SENECA FALLS ORIG WOMEN RIGH MOVE PMAH P

A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's history, and in human history, this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the women's rights movement.

Sally McMillen is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Department Chair at Davidson College. She is the author of Motherhood in the Old South and Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South. She lives in Davidson, North Carolina.

- Seneca Falls: Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Separate Spheres: Law, Faith, Tradition
- 2: Fashioning a Better World
- 3: Seneca Falls
- 4: The Woman's Movement Begins, 1850 - 1860
- 6: War, Disillusionment, Division
- 7: Friction and Reunification, 1870 - 1890
- Epilogue: "Make the World Better"
- Appendices
- The 1848 Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
- "Solitude of Self," Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Endnotes
- Index
- Acknowledgments