From Ladies to Women: The Organized Struggle for Women's Rights in the Reconstruction Era

Unlike most leading works that focus on a broad spectrum of the woman's rights movement, Israel Kugler's volume provides an in-depth analysis of the drive for equalty for women during a specific, influential era in American history: the pioneering efforts of woman's rights organizations in the post-Civil War period. With the war against slavery at an end, the Reconstruction Era was hailed by women leaders, who had been active in the Union cause, as the time for the establishment of equal rights for all humanity—men and women alike. It was this historic period that saw the creation of permanent woman's rights organizations dedicated to a specific goal—that of woman suffrage.