[align=justify][box_out][box_in] Standard history texts rarely contain more than a few scattered and pedestrian passages discussing male-female relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-the critical period of feminist activism. The discussion in the available passages is usually restricted to the United States and Britain, limited primarily to the bare legal and social facts, and heavily weighted toward the later phases of the suffrage movement. So narrow a focus inevitably makes the suffragists appear a transient and extra-ordinaryphenomenon , 'for it screens out the gathering momentum of the women's rights movement throughout the nineteenth century. A fair survey of feminism would see the pressure for women's emancipation building from the 1830's and 1840's and reaching well beyond the issue of suffrage. In fact, the well-documented militant suffrage campaign emerged late in the movement and its bitterness derived from the fact that, by the turn of the century, the vote had become
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