Description
Book SynopsisCentury of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.
Trade ReviewMiss Flexner’s well-documented text is brightened by vignettes of…stout and colorful personalities… Her book has depth and amplitude. * New York Times Book Review *
Never before…has a book done more to relate the women’s rights movement in the United States to the centuries-old struggle of the individual to attain his (or her) full stature in society. Woman’s fight for the franchise is here presented, not as a separate shred torn from history, but as part of the warp and woof of national progress… Miss Flexner admirably refrains from idealizing her subjects, rightly judging that the facts need no gilding to show in true proportions the stature of these valiant women. * Christian Science Monitor *
A book to be read by every student in this country… This account will help us to maintain a truer image of ourselves as we try to finish up the struggle first launched so long ago. -- Betty Friedan
Table of ContentsForeword by Ellen Fitzpatrick Preface, 1975 PART ONE 1. The Position 0f American Women up to 1800 2. Early Steps toward Equal Education 3. The Beginnings of Organization among Women 4. The Beginnings of Reform 5. The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 6. From Seneca Falls to the Civil War PART TWO 7. The Civil War 8. The Intellectual Progress of Women, 1860-1875 9. Women in the Trade Unions, 1860-1875 10. The Emergence of a Suffrage Movement 11. First Victories in the West 12. Breaking Ground for Suffrage 13. The Growth of Women's Organizations 14. Women in the Knights of Labor and the Early A.F. of L. 15. The Reform Era and Woman's Rights 16. The Unification of the Suffrage Movement PART THREE 17. Entering the Twentieth Century 18. Into the Mainstream of Organized Labor 19. The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age, 1906-1913 20. New Life in the Federal Amendment, 1914-1916 21. TheTurn oftheTide, 1916-1918 22. Who Opposed Woman Suffrage? 23. A Hard-Won Victory, 1918-1920 24. Conclusion Afterword Bibliographical Summary Notes Acknowledgments Index
