Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York

by Lori D. Ginzberg

Book Overview

On a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the United States--six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their state's constitutional convention, demanding "equal, and civil and political rights with men." Refusing to invoke the traditional language of deference, motherhood, or Christianity as they made their claim, the women even declined to defend...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856088
• ISBN13: 9780807856086
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York

This was especially interesting to us as it mentioned several women we had been researching for genealogy.