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When Hens Crow

The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America

By: Sylvia D. Hoffert

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When Hens Crow

The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America

By: Sylvia D. Hoffert

[When Hens Crow] looks in an original way at the ideas of the first feminists . . . a pioneering work, written in a clear style and firmly grounded in recent scholarship. . . ." —Journal of American History In 1852 the New York Daily Herald described leaders of the woman's rights movement as "hens that crow." Using speeches, pamphlets, newspaper reports, editorials, and personal papers, Sylvia Hoffert discusses how ideology, language, and strategies of early woman's rights advocates influenced a new political culture grudgingly inclusive of women. She shows the impact of philosophies of republicanism, natural rights, utilitarianism, and the Scottish Common Sense School in helping activists move beyond the limits of Republican Motherhood and the ideals of domesticity and benevolence. When Hens Crow also illustrates the work of the penny press in spreading the demands of woman's rights advocates to a wide audience, establishing the competence of women to contribute to public discourse and public life.

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Indiana University Press

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0253215005

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9780253215000

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights

By: Sylvia D. Hoffert

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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights

By: Sylvia D. Hoffert

A fascinating biography of the New York socialite who played a surprising role in the fight for suffrage. Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. She married two millionaires, and pressured her daughter to wed an aristocrat. This resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth, her administrative expertise, and her social celebrity to help convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and then to persuade the exhausted leaders of the National Woman’s Party to initiate a worldwide equal rights campaign. In this book, Sylvia D. Hoffert argues that Belmont was a feminist visionary and that her financial support was crucial to the success of the suffrage and equal rights movements. She also shows how Belmont’s activism, and the money she used to support it, enriches our understanding of the personal dynamics of the American woman’s rights movement. Drawing upon and analyzing Belmont’s own memoirs, she illustrates how this determined woman went about the complex and collaborative process of creating her public self. “Engaging . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

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Indiana University Press

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0253005604

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Jane Grey Swisshelm

An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884

By: Sylvia D. Hoffert

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Jane Grey Swisshelm

An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884

By: Sylvia D. Hoffert

Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited her political and economic opportunities, and attempted to silence her voice. As the owner and editor of newspapers in Pittsburgh; St. Cloud, Minnesota; and Washington, D.C.; and as one of the founders of the Minnesota Republican Party, Swisshelm negotiated a significant place for herself in the male-dominated world of commerce, journalism, and politics. How she accomplished this feat; what expressive devices she used; what social, economic, and political tensions resulted from her efforts; and how those tensions were resolved are the central questions examined in this biography. Sylvia Hoffert arranges the book topically, rather than chronologically, to include Swisshelm in the broader issues of the day, such as women's involvement in politics and religion, their role in the workplace, and marriage. Rescuing this prominent feminist from obscurity, Hoffert shows how Swisshelm laid the groundwork for the "New Woman" of the turn of the century.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807875880

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9780807875889

Jane Grey Swisshelm

An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884

By: Sylvia D. Hoffert

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An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884

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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights

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Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights

By: Sylvia D. Hoffert

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When Hens Crow

When Hens Crow

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Jane Grey Swisshelm

Jane Grey Swisshelm

Jane Grey Swisshelm

Jane Grey Swisshelm

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

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