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The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Author(s): Lisa Tetrault (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 30 Dec. 2016
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781469633503
- ISBN-13: 9781469633503
Book Description
As Tetrault shows, while this mythology has narrowed our understanding of the early efforts to champion women’s rights, the myth of Seneca Falls itself became an influential factor in the suffrage movement. And along the way, its authors amassed the first archive of feminism and literally invented the modern discipline of women’s history.
2015 Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize, Organization of American Historians
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Greatly expands on current feminist scholarship that interrogates the origin story of Seneca Falls and the inevitability of the triumph of women’s suffrage.”–
CHOICE“Tetrault expertly unpacks the myth of Seneca Falls by examining the messy history of the leaders in the post-Civil War women’s rights movement.”–
CHOICE“This book should be read by anyone interested in women’s history as well as the history of memory-making.”–
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society“This provocative work challenges the standard narrative of the history of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Even more important, however, it aids readers in understanding how collective historical memory is created and shaped. . . . Fascinating. . . . Recommended for scholars in women’s history, constitutional history, and late 19th-century American history.”–
Library Journal“This wonderful book draws on classics, political science, and sociology to fill a large gap in the history of the U.S. women’s movement.”–
Journal of Interdisciplinary History“Useful for any historian looking for a detailed study of women’s organizing after the Civil War as well as for scholars interested in the relationship between collective memory and social movements.”–
Journal of American History
