The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists
Author | : Lisa Pace Vetter |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2017-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479893250 |
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This book traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political thinking. They understood the relationship between sexism, racism and economic inequality. Their efforts to expand the reach of America's founding ideals laid the groundwork not only for women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery, but for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today.