Woman's Voice, Woman's Place Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement

Subjects:

• Women's Studies » Women's Issues in Politics & Law
• Political Science » American Politics/Government
• Political Science » Civil/Political/Human Rights

Reviews:

• Recommended. General collections, graduate students, faculty.
  —Choice January 2004
• The arrival of a new biography of Stone is cause for celebration....one of the most fascinating I have read in a long time.
  —The Women's Review of Books December 2003

• Endorsement From Carol Lasser
  Professor of History, Oberlin College: The meticulous documentation of the antebellum life and career of Lucy Stone is a truly remarkable achievement. It cannot be surpassed for the thorough charting of Stone's movements, the careful assembling of the correspondence and writings of and about Stone, and the detailed attention to the construction of the woman's rights movement. Nowhere has so much information been brought together on Stone, highlighting her key role in the American woman suffrage movement in its formative years.
• Endorsement From Leslie Wheeler
  Editor of Loving Warriors, Selected Letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853-1893: Joelle Million has written a thoroughly researched account of Lucy Stone from childhood until just after the Civil War. The richly detailed, complex portrait that emerges performs an important service in restoring Stone to her rightful place as the guiding force behind the early woman's rights movement. The movement itself is presented in all its diversity from dress reformers to advocates of easier divorce laws to free lovers.
• Endorsement From Judith Wellman
  Professor Emerita, State University of New York, Oswego: Joelle Million's biography of Lucy Stone is very well-documented, as readers would expect from a scholarly work, but it is so well-written that it reads like a novel. I found the story hard to put down. Million tells the story of Stone's life in engaging and dynamic prose. She also offers a very important addition to our knowledge of the early woman's rights movement, helping us to understand that Stone was one of the major leaders, right next to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, and that debates about the rights of women had a broad geographic and cultural context.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• "Shall Woman's Voice Be Hushed?"
• The Making of a Reformer
• Learning Woman's Lot
• Separate Spheres and Female Education
• Rousing Woman's Voice
• "The Confounded Woman Question"
• A Hand to Be Counted
• Oberlin and Universal Reform
• The Highest Good
• "All Lucy Stone's Doing"
• The Power of an Orator
• Antislavery Agent
• Organizing a Movement
• Speaking for Women
• Divergent Paths
• The Converting Voice
• Temperance and Woman's Rights
• "A Hearing Ear" in the West
• "Heart and Soul"
• Testing a Wife's Autonomy
• Romance and Politics
• Forging a "True Marriage"
• The Marriage Question and Woman's Rights
• "The Field Is the World"
• A "Representative Woman"
• The "Path for My Feet"
• Taxing Times
• Passing the Mantle
• Expectancy
• Bibliography
• Index