Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830–1890

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Abbreviations used in notes
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	“Feebler voices?”
	A women’s movement?
	Intersections
	Notes
Chapter 1 William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips: The “man question”
	The “father” and the “mother” of abolitionism
	Abolitionist friendships
	The “woman question”
	Abolitionist marriages
	The London convention
	Notes
Chapter 2 Frederick Douglass and James Mott: Women’s rights partners
	From abolitionism to women’s rights: “Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no Color”
	Marriage: Divisions of labor
	“Manly, not mannish”
	The Seneca Falls and Rochester conventions: Women’s rights with and without men
	Women’s rights challenges
	Notes
Chapter 3 Stephen S. Foster and Henry B. Blackwell: Women’s rights as men’s rights
	Reform as family business
	The test of courtship
	Marriage, divorce, and free love
	“The comparison of opinions”
	“I am the son of a woman, and the brother of a woman”
	The plurality of “woman’s rights marriages”
	Notes
Chapter 4 Robert Purvis and Henry Ward Beecher: Men v. women’s rights
	Families of power
	“Woman’s rights” v. “man’s rights”
	The Beecher-Tilton scandal: Women’s victimization in the hands of men
	Divergent woman’s rights masculinities
	Notes
Chapter 5 Frederick Douglass and Thomas Wentworth Higginson: The “back benches” of the women’s rights movement
	Woman’s rights man Higginson
	“With unusual diffidence”
	Marriages and remarriages
	“Who and what is woman?”
	“Who and what is man?”
	Notes
Bibliography
Index