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Op-ed: For women, a lesson in unity from Seneca Falls

July 17, 2008 By JANE F. LANE Jane F. Lane, a writer who lives in Smithtown, is an incoming second-year masters student at the Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare.

This weekend, those of us who are united in the struggle for justice and opportunity for women will celebrate a happy anniversary: the Seneca Falls convention and the inauguration of the women's rights movement in America.

Feminists who became alarmingly fractious during Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's tumultuous campaign can reflect on the spirit of shared determination of two history-altering...

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