{"product_id":"lucy-stone-speaking-out-for-equality-paperback-softback-9780813518602","title":"Lucy Stone; Speaking Out for Equality (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813518602","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLucy Stone\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpeaking Out for Equality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrea Moore Kerr (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813518602\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNo study of women's history in the United States is complete without an account of Lucy Stone's role in the nineteenth-century drive for legal and political rights for women.This first fully documented biography of Stone describes her rapid rise to fame and power and her later attempt at an equitable mariage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lucy Stone was a Massachusetts newspaper editor, abolitionist, and charismatic orator for the women's rights movement in the last half of the nineteenth century. She was deeply involved in almost every reform issue of her time. Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Julia Ward Howe, Horace Greeley, and Louisa May Alcott counted themselves among her friends. Through her public speaking and her newspaper, the Woman's Journal, Stone became the most widely admired woman's rights spokeswoman of her era. In the nineteenth century, Lucy Stone was a household name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kerr begins with Stone's early roots in a poor family in western Massachusetts. She eventually graduated from Oberlin College and then became a full-time public speaker for an anti-slavery society and for women's rights. Despite Stone's strident anti-marriage ideology, she eventually wed Henry Brown Blackwell, and had her first child at the age of thirty-nine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although Kerr tells us about Stone's public accomplishments, she emphasizes Stone's personal struggle for autonomy. \"Lucy Stone (Only)\" was Stone's trademark signature following her marriage. Her refusal to surrender her birth name was one example of her determination to retain her individuality in an era where a woman's right to a separate identity ended with marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of equal importance is Kerr's discussion of Stone's relationship with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as her revisionist treatment of the schism which eventually divided Stone from Stanton and Anthony. Stone urged legislators not to ignore the need for women's suffrage as they rushed to enfranchise black males. Stanton and Anthony dwelt only on the need for women's suffrage, at the expense of black suffrage. Women's historians, the general reader, and historians of the family will appreciate the story of Stone's attempt to balance the conflicting demands of career and family.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One. \"\u003cbr\u003eEXTRA! EXTRA! Lucy Stone Is Dead!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two. \"\u003cbr\u003eI Am Sorry It Is a Girl. A Woman's Lot Is So Hard\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three. \"\u003cbr\u003eAs Light as Thistle Down\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four. \"\u003cbr\u003eThis is Not a World to Sit Down and Whimper In\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five. \"\u003cbr\u003eWhether We Like It or Not, Little Woman, God Made You an Orator\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six. \"\u003cbr\u003ePutting Lucy Stone to Death\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seven. \"\u003cbr\u003eRock the Cradle Lucy\/And Keep the Baby Warm!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eight. Kansas: The Rift Widens\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Nine. \"\u003cbr\u003eOut of the Terrible Pit\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Ten. \"\u003cbr\u003eEvery Clean Soul\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eleven. \"\u003cbr\u003eWill the Cause Be Ground to Powder?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twelve. \"\u003cbr\u003eAnother Year for Downright Work\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Thirteen. \"\u003cbr\u003eMake the World Better\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743043285272,"sku":"9780813518602","price":26.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lucy-stone-speaking-out-for-equality-paperback-softback-9780813518602","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}