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Author Flexner, Eleanor, 1908-1995.

Title Century of struggle : the woman's rights movement in the United States / Eleanor Flexner
Edition Revised edition
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975

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 W'PONDS  324.3 Fle/Cos 1975  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 405 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents The position of American women up to 1800 -- Early steps toward equal education -- The beginnings of organization among women -- The beginnings of reform -- The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 -- From Seneca Falls to the Civil War -- The Civil War -- The intellectual progress of women, 1860-1875 -- Women in the trade unions, 1860-1875 -- The emergence of a suffrage movement -- First victories in the west -- Breaking ground for suffrage -- The growth of women's organizations -- Women in the Knights of Labor and the early A.F. of L. -- The reform era and woman's rights -- The unification of the suffrage movement -- Entering the twentieth century -- Into the mainstream of organized labor -- The suffrage movement comes of age, 1906-1913 -- New life in the Federal amendment, 1914-1916 -- The turn of the tide, 1916-1918 -- Who opposed woman suffrage? -- A hard-won victory, 1918-1920
Analysis United States Feminism ca 1820- ca 1920
Notes Previous ed.: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : Oxford University Press, 1959
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
Women -- United States.
Women's rights -- United States.
Women's rights.
Women -- United States -- History.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
Women's rights -- United States -- History.
LC no. 74034542
ISBN 0674106512
Other Titles The woman's rights movement in the United States