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Author : Lisa Tetrault
Release : 2014
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Myth of Seneca Falls by : Lisa Tetrault
Download or read book The Myth of Seneca Falls written by Lisa Tetrault. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Author : Anne M. Derousie
Release : 2015
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Download or read book Review of The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (Lisa Tetrault, 2014) written by Anne M. Derousie. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa Tetrault
Release : 2014-06-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Myth of Seneca Falls by : Lisa Tetrault
Download or read book The Myth of Seneca Falls written by Lisa Tetrault. This book was released on 2014-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to internal movement dynamics as well as the racial politics of memory after the Civil War. The founding mythology that coalesced in their speeches and writings--most notably Stanton and Anthony's History of Woman Suffrage--provided younger activists with the vital resource of a usable past for the ongoing struggle, and it helped consolidate Stanton and Anthony's leadership against challenges from the grassroots and rival suffragists. As Tetrault shows, while this mythology has narrowed our understanding of the early efforts to champion women's rights, the myth of Seneca Falls itself became an influential factor in the suffrage movement. And along the way, its authors amassed the first archive of feminism and literally invented the modern discipline of women's history. 2015 Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize, Organization of American Historians
Author : Felicity M. Turner
Release : 2022-08-02
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 714/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Proving Pregnancy by : Felicity M. Turner
Download or read book Proving Pregnancy written by Felicity M. Turner. This book was released on 2022-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women—Black and white, enslaved and free—gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals. In the first half of the nineteenth century, community-based female knowledge played a crucial role in prosecutions for infanticide: midwives, neighbors, healers, and relatives were better acquainted with an accused woman's intimate life, the circumstances of her pregnancy, and possible motives for infanticide than any man. As the century progressed, women accused of the crime were increasingly subject to the scrutiny of white male legal and medical experts educated in institutions that reinforced prevailing ideas about the inferior mental and physical capacities of women and Black people. As Reconstruction ended, the reach of the carceral state expanded, while law and medicine simultaneously privileged federal and state regulatory power over that of local institutions. These transformations placed all women's bodies at the mercy of male doctors, judges, and juries in ways they had not been before. Reframing knowledge of the body as property, Felicity M. Turner shows how, at the very moment when the federal government expanded formal civil and political rights to formerly enslaved people, the medical profession instituted new legal regulations across the nation that restricted access to knowledge of the female body to white men.
Author : Sarah Churchwell
Release : 2022-07-07
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Wrath to Come by : Sarah Churchwell
Download or read book The Wrath to Come written by Sarah Churchwell. This book was released on 2022-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of the year' Suzannah Lipscomb 'Brilliant and provocative' Gavin Esler Sarah Churchwell examines one of the most enduringly popular stories of all time, Gone with the Wind, to help explain the divisions ripping the United States apart today. Separating fact from fiction, she shows how histories of mythmaking have informed America's racial and gender politics, the controversies over Confederate statues, the resurgence of white nationalism, the Black Lives Matter movement, the enduring power of the American Dream, and the violence of Trumpism. Gone with the Wind was an instant bestseller when it was published in 1936; its film version became the most successful Hollywood film of all time. Today the story's racism is again a subject of controversy, but it was just as controversial in the 1930s, foreshadowing today's debates over race and American fascism. In The Wrath to Come, Sarah Churchwell charts an extraordinary journey through 160 years of American denialism. From the Lost Cause to the romances behind the Ku Klux Klan, from the invention of the 'ideal' slave plantation to the erasure of interwar fascism, Churchwell shows what happens when we do violence to history, as collective denial turns fictions into lies, and lies into a vicious reality.
