Sally McMillen is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Department Chair at Davidson College. She is the author of Motherhood in the Old South and Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South. She lives in Davidson, North Carolina.

• Introduction


• 1: Separate Spheres: Law, Faith, Tradition


• 2: Fashioning a Better World


• 3: Seneca Falls


• 4: The Woman's Movement Begins, 1850 - 1860


• 5: War, Disillusionment, Division


• 6: Friction and Reunification, 1870 - 1890


• Epilogue: "Make the World Better"


• Appendices


• The 1848 Declaration of Rights and Sentiments


• "Solitude of Self," Elizabeth Cady Stanton


• Endnotes


• Index


• Acknowledgments

A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's history, and in human history, this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the women's rights movement.