The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays and primary documents that trace the relationship and political development of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher: Schocken Books Incorporated
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1981
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A survey of the works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anothony beginning with the organization of the Seneca Falls convention and covering American feminism and woman suffrage.

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays and primary documents that trace the relationship and political development of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Solitude of Self

Solitude of Self
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2001-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1930464010

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's inspiring and timeless speech. A perfect gift for anyone who cherishes dignity, equality, and solitude.

The Woman's Bible

The Woman's Bible
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1513275976

The Woman’s Bible (1895-1898) is a work of religious and political nonfiction by American women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Despite its popular success, The Woman’s Bible caused a rift in the movement between Stanton and her supporters and those who believed that to wade into religious waters would hurt the suffragist cause. Reactions from the press, political establishment, and much of the reading public were overwhelmingly negative, accusing Stanton of blasphemy and sacrilege while refusing to engage with the book’s message: to reconsider the historical reception of the Bible in order to make room for women to be afforded equality in their private and public lives. Working with a Revising Committee of 26 members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Stanton sought to provide an updated commentary on the Bible that would highlight passages allowing for an interpretation of scripture harmonious with the cause of the women’s rights movement. Inspired by activist and Quaker Lucretia Mott’s use of Bible verses to dispel the arguments of bigots opposed to women’s rights and abolition, Stanton hoped to establish a new way of framing the history and religious representation of women that could resist similar arguments that held up the Bible as precedent for the continued oppression of women. Starting with an interpretation of the Genesis story of Adam and Eve, Stanton attempts to show where men and women are treated as equals in the Bible, eventually working through both the Old and New Testaments. In its day, The Woman’s Bible was a radically important revisioning of women’s place in scripture that Stanton and her collaborators hoped would open the door for women to obtain the rights they had long been systematically denied. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Failure Is Impossible

Failure Is Impossible
Author: Lynn Sherr
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2010-09-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307765296

“Susan B. Anthony didn’t live long enough to see women get the vote, but her tireless dedication shines through on every page.”—The Washington Post Book World Failure Is Impossible brings together—for the first time—a wide-ranging, spirited collection of Susan B. Anthony’s speeches, letters, and quotes, linked by contemporary reports and Lynn Sherr’s insightful biographical commentary. By allowing the legendary suffragist to speak for herself, Sherr brushes the dust off of the Susan B. Anthony icon, introducing a new generation to the brave, brilliant, funny, and, most of all, prescient woman she really was. “Lynn Sherr has done us all a great service by bringing to spectacular light the too long neglected story of one of our greatest patriots—a genuine hero who helped change for the better the lives of a majority of American citizens.”—Ken Burns

The Solitude of Self

The Solitude of Self
Author: Vivian Gornick
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429923725

Elizabeth Cady Stanton—along with her comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthony—was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the nineteenth century. Endowed with a philosophical cast of mind large enough to grasp the immensity that women's rights addressed, Stanton developed a devotion to equality uniquely American in character. Her writing and life make clear why feminism as a liberation movement has flourished here as nowhere else in the world. Born in 1815 into a conservative family of privilege, Stanton was radicalized by her experience in the abolitionist movement. Attending the first international conference on slavery in London in 1840, she found herself amazed when the conference officials refused to seat her because of her sex. At that moment she realized that "In the eyes of the world I was not as I was in my own eyes, I was only a woman." At the same moment she saw what it meant for the American republic to have failed to deliver on its fundamental promise of equality for all. In her last public address, "The Solitude of Self," (delivered in 1892), she argued for women's political equality on the grounds that loneliness is the human condition, and that each citizen therefore needs the tools to fight alone for his or her interests. Vivian Gornick first encountered "The Solitude of Self" thirty years ago. Of that moment Gornick writes, "I hardly knew who Stanton was, much less what this speech meant in her life, or in our history, but it I can still remember thinking with excitement and gratitude, as I read these words for the first time, eighty years after they were written, ‘We are beginning where she left off.' " The Solitude of Self is a profound, distilled meditation on what makes American feminism American from one of the finest critics of our time.