Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.

Author: Flexner, Eleanor. 

Title: Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States.

Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996 (originally published 1959).

Eleanor Flexner (born in 1908 in Georgetown, Kentucky, and died in 1995 in Massachusetts) was a pioneer of women's studies. This book continues to serve as a foundational study of the history of U.S. women's reform movements in the 19th- and early 20th-centuries. See also Ellen Carol DuBois, "Eleanor Flexner and the History of American Feminism" in Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights (New York University Press, 1998).