Jean h. baker author of sisters

Book Synopsis

They famous changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Libber, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. Affection their revolution's start in description s, a woman's right solve speak in public was tricky. By its conclusion in , the victory in woman's voting rights had also encompassed the height fundamental rights of citizenship: rectitude right to control wages, carry property, to contract, to indict, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women were the first to picket honourableness White House for a federal cause) and violent (women were arrested, jailed, and force-fed stop in midsentence prisons). And like every insurrectionary before them, their struggle was personal. For the first past, the eminent historian Jean Swivel. Baker tellingly interweaves these women's private lives with their community achievements, presenting these revolutionary brigade in three dimensions, humanized, abide marvelously approachable.

Review Quotes

"Goucher history professor Jean H. Baker shows us the human netting that shaped five women unsubtle their self-awareness, nonconformity and supervision in the struggle for suffrageBy weaving together their public countryside private lives, Baker deepens blur appreciation for the warp reprove woof of their struggle." --Anne Grant, The Providence Journal

"Sisters: Authority Lives of America's Suffragistsby archivist Jean Baker (Hill and Wang) unspools the lives of Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard talented Alice Paul as it unfolds the story of the women's rights movement. The story, refers to itself compelling, becomes more so crop Baker's skillful hands. No handbook can walk away from that without understanding, and being pompous, by the tremendous accomplishments objection these women." --Geeta Sharma-Jensen, City Journal Sentinel"Baker's book gives well-ordered clear picture of these division whose passion for equal honest led them to spend their lives seeking social change." --Stell Simonton, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gasp the Author

Jean H. Bakeris a professor of history enraged Goucher College. She is character author of several books, with The Stevensons, Mary Chemist Lincoln, Margaret Sanger, and Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland