Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869

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Cornell University Press, 1999 - History - 220 pages

In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue generally perceived as nineteenth-century. For this new edition, Ellen Carol DuBois addresses the changing context for the history of woman suffrage at the millennium.

 

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Abbreviations
6
Chapter One Womens Rights
21
Chapter Two The Fourteenth Amendment and
53
Chapter Three The Kansas Campaign
79
The Democratic
105
Chapter Six The Fifteenth Amendment and
162
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Ellen Carol DuBois is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her most recent books are Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights and Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage.

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