Two Paths to Women's Equality: Temperance, Suffarage and the Origins of Modern Feminism
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Book Overview
Assesses the combined influence of temperance and suffrage on womans evolving role in American society. Traces the history of temperance and suffrage to womens involvement in missionary work, moral reform, and abolition between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Intensive study of the Womans Christian Temperance Union, founded in 1874, reveals what many will find to be its surprisingly wide scope of social concerns. The temperance women, often thought...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0805797009
ISBN13:9780805797008
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Twayne Publishers
Length:295 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"
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She gets it.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Giele is offering the best explanation going of why the suffrage movement succeeded when it did by highlighting the two strong bases for women's suffrage and showing the degree to which they diverged outside of this issue. She brings together scholarship arguing for one side of the other and convincingly argues that both were necessary to success. An important work.
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