“The Myth of Seneca Falls” was written by whom one could assume is a feminist history professor, Lisa Tetrault. Lisa’s book goes into detail about the who’s, what’s, and when’s of the women’s suffrage movement. Despite the fact that we know the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 as the pinnacle of the women’s suffrage movement, Lisa goes to great lengths to remind us not of the myth, but of the truth about the women’s suffrage movement.
Anyone who reads “The Myth of Seneca Falls” will immediately know that Lisa’s entire purpose for writing this book is to inform the reader of the truth of the Seneca Falls convention and the women’s suffrage movement. As a feminist, she knows that our two heroines, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created …show more content…
She goes on to describe in detail, how them doing that aided in the reorganization and transformation of the women's rights movement. It gave them the sort of leverage that the suffragists, particularly Susan B. Anthony needed in order to keep the ball of women's rights moving forward and not getting completely lost in the sea of post civil war white male supremacy that was just one of the many challenges that the original feminist of the suffrage movement faced.
Lisa Tetrault presents solid and consistent evidence from the beginning to the end of the novel and makes it very clear that she has done her research. She knew that by writing “ The Myth of Seneca Falls” she’d raise plenty of questions and a countless number of critics would be analyzing each and every line with a fine tooth comb. Since she had already known that her book could be met with a potential negative backlash, she was prepared and left no room for argument by constantly backing up her argument with true facts throughout her
Anyone who reads “The Myth of Seneca Falls” will immediately know that Lisa’s entire purpose for writing this book is to inform the reader of the truth of the Seneca Falls convention and the women’s suffrage movement. As a feminist, she knows that our two heroines, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created …show more content…
She goes on to describe in detail, how them doing that aided in the reorganization and transformation of the women's rights movement. It gave them the sort of leverage that the suffragists, particularly Susan B. Anthony needed in order to keep the ball of women's rights moving forward and not getting completely lost in the sea of post civil war white male supremacy that was just one of the many challenges that the original feminist of the suffrage movement faced.
Lisa Tetrault presents solid and consistent evidence from the beginning to the end of the novel and makes it very clear that she has done her research. She knew that by writing “ The Myth of Seneca Falls” she’d raise plenty of questions and a countless number of critics would be analyzing each and every line with a fine tooth comb. Since she had already known that her book could be met with a potential negative backlash, she was prepared and left no room for argument by constantly backing up her argument with true facts throughout her