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| Named Person: | Anna Howard Shaw |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation, Manuscript |
| Document Type: | Book, Archival Material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Beverly Ann Zink-Sawyer |
| OCLC Number: | 40826419 |
| Description: | vi, 266 p. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Historical context ; Thesis and methodology ; Suffragists, social movements, and speech -- Enlightenment and evangelicalism: ideological roots of the women's rights movement. Women find a voice: Enlightenment feminists ; From pen to pulpit: evangelical feminists -- Speaking out for the equality of the sexes: early women's rights preachers -- "Eccentrics and crackpots": the rise of "true womanhood" and the radicalization of the women's rights movement -- A brave new world: postbellum assaults on American tradition. The Civil War ; Postwar hopes for the ballot ; Preserving the Protestant ethos of America -- Taking a second look: the "functional value" of the ballot. The rise of a new feminist rhetoric ; Meeting the challenge of the "antis" ; Women (re)organize for reform ; Taming the "wild West" -- From preachers to suffragists: suffrage speakers and the rhetoric of morality. The suffrage preachers. Henry Ward Beecher ; Olympia Brown ; Julia Ward Howe ; Anna Howard Shaw ; Frances Willard -- Conclusion: riding the tide of persuasion to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment -- Epilogue: winning the battle but losing the war. |
| Other Titles: | Role of preachers in the ideological transformation of the woman suffrage movement in the United States |
| Responsibility: | Beverly Ann Zink-Sawyer. |
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