Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker : a reader in documents and essays / edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith.

Author/Creator:

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.

Standardized Title:

Selections

Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Format/Description:

Book
viii, 328 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.
Suffragists -- United States -- Biography.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.

Contents:

Introduction / Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith
The Essays. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the long view / Vivian Gornick ; Missed connections: abolitionist feminism in the nineteenth century / Christine Stansell ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart Mill, and the nature of feminist thought / Barbara Caine ; Stanton on self and community / Richard Cándida Smith ; "The pivot of the marriage relation": Stanton's analysis of women's subordination in marriage / Ellen Carol DuBois ; "Free woman is a divine being, the savior of mankind": Stanton's exploration of religion and gender / Kathi Kern ; Stanton and the right to vote: on account of race or sex / Ann D. Gordon ; "Lower orders," racial hierarchies, and rights rhetoric: evolutionary echoes in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's thought during the late 1860s / Michele Mitchell
A selection of speeches, articles, and essays by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1854-1901. "Address to the legislature of New York, Albany, February 14, 1854" ; "Address to the legislature on women's right of suffrage, Albany, February 18, 1860" ; "Address to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860" ; "Address to anniversary of American Equal Rights Association, May 12, 1869, New York City" ; "Subjection of women" (1875) ; "National protection for national citizens, address to the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, January 11, 1878, Washington, D.C." ; "The other side of the woman question" (1879) ; "Has Christianity benefited woman?" (1885) ; "Divorce versus domestic warfare" (1890) ; "The matriarchate, or mother-age" (1891) ; "Worship of God in man" (1893) ; Selections from The woman's bible (1895, 1898) ; "Our proper attitude toward immigration" (1895) ; "Significance and history of the ballot" (1898) ; "Progress of the American woman" (1900) ; "The degradation of disfranchisement" (1901).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-
Cándida Smith, Richard.

ISBN:

9780814719817 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814719813 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814719824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814719821 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

74915656

Online:

Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006035505.html

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