Bibliograph

Sisters, the lives of America's suffragists, Jean H. Baker

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Sisters, the lives of America's suffragists, Jean H. Baker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

platesportraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sisters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

74456475

Responsibility statement

Jean H. Baker

Sub title

the lives of America's suffragists

Summary

"They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to form contracts, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational and violent. And like every revolutionary's before them, their struggle was personal. For the first time, the eminent historian Jean H. Baker tellingly interweaves these women's private lives with their public achievements. As only a biographer can, Baker presents each revolutionary women in three dimensions, humanized, and marvelously approachable. The formidable founding mothers of American feminism are introduced as the sisters they were to one another, and as they must be remembered by the feminists who follow in their footsteps." -- Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

The martyr and the missionary : Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell -- In the blessed company of faithful women : Susan B. Anthony and the sisters -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the solitude of self -- Mothering America : the feminist ambitions of Frances Willard -- Endgame : Alice Paul and Woodrow Wilson

Target audience

adult

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