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The Women's Rights Movement and the Finger Lakes Region: The Heart of New York State

by Emerson Klees

Friends of the Finger Lakes Publishing, 1998
Price: $20.00

The Women's Rights Movement and the Finger Lakes Region: The Heart of New York State tells the story of the Women’s Rights Movement. The book also offers a guide to places to see and things to do in the area of Seneca Falls, the site of the first Women’s Rights Convention that was held on July 19-20, 1848. The social conditions with which women lived in the mid-1800s are described in the Prologue. Looking back from today, it is difficult to comprehend the social status imposed upon half of the population in the nineteenth century. The Introduction provides a brief history of the Women’s Rights Movement from the first demands for the vote to the ratification of the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” to the Constitution in 1920.

The book highlights the lives of the leaders of the Women’s Rights Movement and provides eight stories of the pioneers of the Movement in addition to nine stories about the struggle. The Women’s Rights Movement in England is described through a profile of the indomitable Pankhurst family. The status of American women in the 1990s and the 21st century is discussed in the Epilogue. The book also provides a brief description and history of Seneca Falls and its neighboring communities. Information is provided on 150 places to see and things to do in the area, seven in Seneca Falls and 143 within a twenty-five mile radius of the village.

6x9 full color softcover

ISBN: 0-9635990-9-7