![]() ![]() McMillen tells the stories of their lives, how they came to take up the cause of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes, and the lasting and transformative effects of the work they did. ![]() The book covers 50 years of women's activism, from 1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures-Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement, the latest contribution to Oxford's 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 implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today. In 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 woman's rights movement and change the course of history. ![]()
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