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A 5 page book review that addresses Gerda Lerner's The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition, which argues persuasively that these women were pioneers both in the abolitionist cause and in regards to the women's movement. The writer summarizes the book and Lerner's scholarship. No additional sources cited.
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position is that people are indoctrinated by the culture of their era to accept certain ideas as normative. Angelina and Sarah Grimke were born to the Southern aristocracy of the
planter class. They were raised not only with the idea of slavery as the norm, but also that, as women, their place was strictly confined to the domestic sphere. Not
only did these two sisters reject their heritage, but they also argued throughout their lives the heretical notion that women should be the equals of men under the law. Gerda
Lerner in her text, The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Pioneers for Womens Rights and Abolition, argues persuasively that these women were pioneers both in the abolitionist cause and in
regards to the womens movement. While Angelina is mentioned more prominently in twentieth century historiography of the womens movement, largely due to the fact that she had the more
prominent public role, Lerner argues that Sarah Grimke created the "best and most coherent Bible argument for womans equality yet offered by a woman" (Lerner 264). Furthermore, Sarahs writing differentiates
between sex and gender, takes such distinctions as class and race in consideration and connects the subordination of women both to educational deprivation and political suppression (Lerner 264). Social reform
is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten years before the landmark Seneca Falls convention, which
was the "first time in history women organized to demand their rights as citizens" (Lerner 10). The revised and expanded version of Gerda Lerners The Grimke Sisters from
South Carolina, Pioneers for Womens Rights and Abolition was published quite recently, in 2004. However, the original edition of this text has received wide acclaim and scholarly interest for over
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