Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic

by Rosemarie Zagarri

Book Overview

The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220730
• ISBN13: 9780812220735
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"