Women and the question of `universal' suffrage in 1848: A transatlantic comparison of suffragist...

Compares the origins and histories of women suffrage in France and the United States. Abolition of slavery and introduction of `universal' suffrage by the revolutionary French Second Republic in 1848; Re-establishment of vital aspects of the history of women suffrage; Similarities of the rhetorics of feminism in the two countries; Arguments on the Declaration of Sentiments.