The Political Thought Of America’S Founding Feminists

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

• | Author: Lisa Pace Vetter
• | Publisher: NYU Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 11, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1479853348
• | ISBN-13: 9781479853342