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On a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman''s rights in the United States--six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their state''s constitutional convention, demanding "equal, and civil and political rights with men." Refusing to invoke the traditional language of deference, motherhood, or Christianity as th...
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On a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman''s rights in the United States--six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their state''s constitutional convention, demanding "equal, and civil and political rights with men." Refusing to invoke the traditional language of deference, motherhood, or Christianity as th...
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