Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is a professor of history at Vassar College with a special interest in the post-Civil War era, including electoral politics and the history of women and gender

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Susan B Anthony, front row and second from the left, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two seats over, with executive committee members from the International Council of Women. (Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
Women’s History

Early Women’s Rights Activists Wanted Much More than Suffrage

Voting wasn't their only goal, or even their main one. They battled racism, economic oppression and sexual violence—along with the law that made married women little more than property of their husbands.