Century of Struggle : : The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition / / Ellen F. Fitzpatrick, Eleanor Flexner.

• VerfasserIn: Flexner, Eleanor,; Fitzpatrick, Ellen F.,
• MitwirkendeR: Fitzpatrick, Ellen,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface, 1975 -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER ONE The Position of American Women up to 1800 -- CHAPTER TWO Early Steps toward Equal Education -- CHAPTER THREE The Beginnings of Organization among Women -- CHAPTER FOUR The Beginnings of Reform -- CHAPTER FIVE The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 -- CHAPTER SIX From Seneca Falls to the Civil War -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Civil War -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Intellectual Progress of Women, 1860-1875 -- CHAPTER NINE Women in the Trade Unions, 1860-1875 -- CHAPTER TEN The Emergence of a Suffrage Movement -- CHAPTER ELEVEN First Victories in the West -- CHAPTER TWELVE Breaking Ground for Suffrage -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Growth of Women's Organizations -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Women in the Knights of Labor and the Early A.F. of L. -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Reform Era and Woman's Rights -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Unification of the Suffrage Movement -- PART THREE -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Entering the Twentieth Century -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Into the Mainstream of Organized Labor -- CHAPTER NINETEEN The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age, 1906-1913 -- CHAPTER TWENTY New Life in the Federal Amendment, 1914-1916 -- CHAPTER TWENTY- ONE The Turn of the Tide, 1916-1918 -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Who Opposed Woman Suffrage? -- CHAPTER TWENTY- THREE A Hard-Won Victory, 1918-1920 -- CHAPTER TWENTY- FOUR Conclusion -- Afterword -- Bibliographical Summary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index