Summary Of Tetrault's Revolutionary Backlash

Tetrault’s work has provided the reader with a compelling and eye opening narrative. To a certain extent, Tetrault’s book fits into the same school as Zagarri’s Revolutionary Backlash: Women in Politics in Early America (2009) and Ginzberg’s Untidy Origins: A History of Women’s Rights in Antebellum New York (2005), which both works challenge the Seneca Falls origin story. However, Tetrault’s book, not only challenge the origin story, it demonstrates the great lengths Anthony and Stanton went through to create this myth, which has been the dominate historical interpretation of the Women’s Right Movement. In writing this book, she is attempting to free the reader/historian from the constraints of the Seneca Falls