The myth of Seneca Falls

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The publication of "The Myth of Seneca Falls" is a big event for those of us who like to live in the suffrage world. Professor Tetrault has come up with the first really effective counter-narrative to Eleanor Flexner's classic "Century of Struggle".Cited by: The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 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. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, (Gender and American Culture) by Lisa Tetrault () on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.4/5(14).

The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 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 by:   The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 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 Brand: The University of North Carolina Press.

Book Overview The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 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.

The Myth of Seneca Falls Nearly every history book, encyclopedia entry, and news items pins the exact origin of the women’s rights movement in the United States to the meeting at Seneca Falls, New York in July But can a movement as big as the women’s rights one have one specific geographic origin at only one meeting.

mark Seneca Falls as the birthplace of the Suffragist Movement, instead she argued that the Worcester Convention marked the birth of the movement. It was also during this time, as Tetrault demonstrates, that Anthony and Stanton began to construct their Seneca Falls history.

She writes. About the Book The story of how the women’s rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.

Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and. The Myth of Seneca Falls explains why such a widespread error was almost inevitable. Lisa Tetrault's central argument is that the convention at Seneca Falls that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott helped to organize became "nineteenth century feminism's watershed event" through Stanton's and Susan B.

Anthony's retroactive decision to make it that. Download Book Seneca Falls in PDF format. You can Read Online Seneca Falls here in PDF, EPUB, Mobi or Docx formats. Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, Release Starting from Seneca Falls. Author: Karen Schwabach. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, explores why we remember certain suffragists and have forgotten others.

Historian Lisa Tetrault points out how personal vendettas, racial dynamics and other factors affected the story we tell about the suffrage movement and examines just how much of the story we did learn was true and how much. Professor Tetrault hoped that her book, “The Myth of Seneca Falls,” would undo, or start to undo, this Seneca Narrative created by Stanton and Anthony.

Although this narrative helped win women the right to vote, it sidelined other issues that still affect women to this day, such as equal pay or reproductive rights. This wonderful book draws on classics, political science, and sociology to fill a large gap in the history of the U.S.

women’s movement. Most importantly, Tetrault uses the concept of the “origin story” to show how Seneca Falls in upstate New York, the site of a relatively minor meeting, became the women’s movement’s founding myth and the most recognized event in U.S.

women’s : Bonnie S. Anderson. Tetrault’s book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement,recently won the Organization of American Historian’s women’s history book award, for best and most original contribution to the field.

Lisa Tetrault is a Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. COUPON: Rent The Myth of Seneca Falls Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1st edition () and save up to 80% on textbook rentals and 90% on used textbooks. Get FREE 7-day instant eTextbook access. Lisa Tetrault’s “The Myth of Seneca Falls” Named Most Original Book in U.S.

Women’s History By Shilo Rea / The Organization of American Historians (OAH) has named “ The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, ” by Carnegie Mellon University’s Lisa Tetrault as the winner of its inaugural Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in.

Expand/Collapse Synopsis The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 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 : The University of North Carolina Press.

In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July,a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history.

The implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today. On Saturday, November 11th OHA is hosting its monthly book club featuring the book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, (Gender and American Culture).

The book will be available in OHA’s Gift Gallery Museum Store at Montgomery Street. “The story of how the women’s rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of is a. Book Description: The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of is a cherished American myth.

The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and .Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women s Rights Movement Book Summary: In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July,a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history.

The implications of that remarkable convention would be.(). The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, – American Nineteenth Century History: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp.