{"product_id":"seneca-falls-and-the-origins-of-the-womens-rights-movement-pivotal-moments-in-american-history-9780195182651","title":"Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal Moments in American History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a quiet town of Seneca Falls  New York  over the course of two days in July  1848  a small group of women and men  led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott  held a convention that would launch the womans rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today.  In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Womans Rights Movement  the latest contribution to Oxfords acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series  Sally McMillen unpacks  for the first time  the full significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced. The book covers 50 years of womens activism  from 1840-1890  focusing on four extraordinary figures--Lucretia Mott  Elizabeth Cady Stanton  Lucy Stone  and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen tells the stories of their lives  how they came to take up the cause of womens rights  the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes  and the lasting and transformative effects of the work they did. At the convention they asserted full equality with men  argued for greater legal rights  greater professional and education opportunities  and the right to vote--ideas considered wildly radical at the time. Indeed  looking back at the convention two years later  Anthony called it \"the grandest and greatest reform of all time--and destined to be thus regarded by the future historian.\" In this lively and warmly written study  Sally McMillen may well be the future historian Anthony was hoping to find.  A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American womens history  and in human history  this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the womans rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652168179765,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195182650","price":35.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195182651.jpg?v=1781849683","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/seneca-falls-and-the-origins-of-the-womens-rights-movement-pivotal-moments-in-american-history-9780195182651","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}