From Ladies to Women: The Organized Struggle for Woman's Rights in the Reconstruction Era

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgments Part One. Setting the Stage--Through the Civil War Precursors Changes in Woman's Status Part Two. Reconstruction--The Dawn of a New Day? The Political and Economic Stakes in the War's Aftermath Toward Organizing--The Woman's Rights Convention of 1866 The Broadest Platform--The American Equal Rights Association--1866-1867 Fissures over Priorities--New York Constitutional Convention and the Kansas Suffrage Campaigns, 1867 The Struggle for Control, 1868 The Rivals--The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association Unity--The Attempt and Failure--1870 The Side Issues of Contention--Suffrage, Marriage, Divorce, and Sex Political Action Organized Labor and Woman's Rights--The Positive Phase The Labor-Woman's Rights Coalition Breaks Apart The Woman's Rights Press Part Three. Epiloque From the Suffrage Victory to the Future of Woman's Rights Notes Selected Bibliography Index