The political thought of America's founding feminists / Lisa Pace Vetter.

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Main Author: Vetter, Lisa Pace, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: political theory and the founding of American feminism
  • Lifting the "Claud-Lorraine tint" over the Republic: Frances Wright's critique
  • Of society and manners in America
  • Harriet Martineau on the theory and practice of democracy in America
  • Facing the "sledge hammer of truth": Angelina Grimke and the rhetoric of reform
  • Sarah Grimke's Quaker liberalism
  • "The most belligerent non-resistant": Lucretia Mott on women's rights
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton's rhetoric of ridicule and reform
  • The shadow and the substance of Sojourner Truth
  • Conclusion.