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originally appeared in the July 17, 1948, issue.  This essay,
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article since 1865.  About the Author  Ramona Barth Ramona Barth
wrote and lectured extensively on the pioneers of the feminist
movement in the 1940s.  In July, 1848, the same year in which
Karl Marx issued his Communist Manifesto, a group of determined
American women gathered at Seneca Falls, New York, to issue what
Mary R. Beard has called "a startling manifesto of woman's
rights." Elizabeth Cady Stanton instigated the Seneca meeting;
and her Declaration of Sentiments has had in some ways as
profound an influence on hu