Silence Is Not A Virtue

For much of recorded history, law and custom have deprived half the human species of the rights and privileges enjoyed by the other half. Silence Is Not A Virtue tells the story of ten heroines who fought to end this injustice. Their efforts not only ignited the world’s first mass movements for gender equality but, in so doing, earned for women a broad range of educational, employment, property, and family rights, including the greatest prize of all, universal suffrage. Within these pages, read of the courageous advocates – among them Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barbara Bodichon – who laid the foundation for the legal, political, and economic liberties that millions of women today enjoy.