History of the American Suffragist Movement

by Doris Weatherford

Book Overview

Chronicles the women's suffrage movement from its official inception at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention throuth the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576070654
• ISBN13: 9781576070659
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 6 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 12

Customer Reviews

Past points out shortcomings of the present

Doris Weatherford's book is a rare find eclipsing other histories of the first wave of the Women's Movement in it's precise details and meticulous data search. By simply stating the wealth of information kept in record by the Seneca Falls group, Weatherford points out the inconsistencies between the lack of modern day Feminist Movement dialogue. Indeed, I found myself wishing the Second and Third Wave Feminists had captured the insight to keep as meticulous a record on their struggles and activism. If you're looking for Who-What-Why and How in the Women's Movement or for data on the Suffrage struggle and the hundred year battle to win women the vote, this is THE book. As in her other books on women's history, Doris Weatherford is the consummate researcher. The biblio alone is worth gold. Weatherford writes in an easy style that both engages and interests the reader as she breathes life into Elizabeth Cady-Stanton, Victoria Woodhull and Susan B. Anthony and the tremendous stuggle of American Women's Suffrage.