Full Description
Explores the diversity of thought and action in women's involvement in 19th-century reform movements.
Though Susan B. Anthony is best remembered for leading the campaign for women's suffrage, she worked in multiple movements for equality beyond women's right to vote, including antislavery, Native American rights, temperance, and labor reform. In doing so she forged alliances with other activists to forward a broad social justice agenda, but she also faced opposition from these reformers on how best to achieve this goal.
Susan B. Anthony and theStruggle for Equal Rights explores the diversity of women's activism in nineteenth-century American reform movements, focusing on how Anthony and other women reformers shaped those movements and our memories of them. The essays here chart the long career of Anthony in this rich historical context of women's activism and display the efforts of a wide variety of women, and the challenges they faced, in the continued struggle for equality.
Christine L. Ridarsky, Rochester City Historian, is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Rochester. Mary M. Huth is retired assistant director of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester.
Contents
Preface
Introduction - Nancy A. Hewitt
Part 1: Constructing Memory
1. We Shall Be Remembered: Susan B. Anthony and the Politics of Writing History - Lisa Tetrault
Part 2: Anthony and Her Allies
2. "To Bury the Black Man and the Woman in the Citizen": The American Equal Rights Association and the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867 - Laura E. Free
3. "I Pray with My Work": Susan B. Anthony's Religious Journey - Kathi Kern
Part 3: Broadening the Boundaries of the Equal Rights Struggle
4. Others and Origins: Nineteenth-Century Suffragists and the "Indian Problem" - Melissa Ryan
5. Frances Watkins Harper and the Search for Women's Interracial Alliances - Alison M. Parker
6. The Ladies' Land League and the Labor Question: Irish-American Women and Social Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century - Tara M. McCarthy
Part 4: Reconstructing Memory
7. Knowing Susan B. Anthony: The Stories We Tell of a Life - Ann D. Gordon
List of Contributors
Index
