Century of Struggle – The Woman′s Rights Movement in the United States Enl Ed - Hardcover

Flexner, Eleanor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674106547 ISBN 13: 9780674106543

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This work examines the story of the woman's suffrage movement in the USA. It argues that this movement was one of the longest, most successful and in some respects most radical challenges posed to the American system of electoral politics.

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

About the Author

Eleanor Flexner(1908-1995), a writer, was also the author of American Playwrights: 1918-1938 and Mary Wollstonecraft. Ellen Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of History, Harvard University, and the author of Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674106547
• ISBN 13: 9780674106543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432