Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker : : A Reader in Documents and Essays / / ed. by Ellen Carol DuBois, Richard Cándida Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Caine, Barbara,; DuBois, Ellen Carol,; Gordon, Ann D.,; Gornick, Vivian,; Kern, Kathi,; Mitchell, Michele,; Smith, Richard Cándida,; Stansell, Christine,
• HerausgeberIn: DuBois, Ellen Carol,; Smith, Richard Cándida,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands-along with her close friend Susan B. Anthony-as the major icon of the struggle for women’s suffrage. In spite of this celebrity, Stanton’s intellectual contributions have been largely overshadowed by the focus on her political activities, and she is yet to be recognized as one of the major thinkers of the nineteenth century.Here, at long last, is a single volume exploring and presenting Stanton’s thoughtful, original, lifelong inquiries into the nature, origins, range, and solutions of women’s subordination. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker reintroduces, contextualizes, and critiques Stanton’s numerous contributions to modern thought. It juxtaposes a selection of Stanton’s own writings, many of them previously unavailable, with eight original essays by prominent historians and social theorists interrogating Stanton’s views on such pressing social issues as religion, marriage, race, the self and community, and her place among leading nineteenth century feminist thinkers. Taken together, these essays and documents reveal the different facets, enduring insights, and fascinating contradictions of the work of one of the great thinkers of the feminist tradition.Contributors: Barbara Caine, Richard Cándida Smith, Ellen Carol DuBois, Ann D. Gordon, Vivian Gornick, Kathi Kern, Michele Mitchell, and Christine Stansell.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I The Essays -- 1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Long View -- 2 Missed Connections -- 3 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart Mill, and the Nature of Feminist Thought -- 4 Stanton on Self and Community -- 5 “The Pivot of the Marriage Relation” -- 6 “Free Woman Is a Divine Being, the Savior of Mankind” -- 7 Stanton and the Right to Vote -- 8 “Lower Orders,” Racial Hierarchies, and Rights Rhetoric -- PART II A Selection of Speeches, Articles, and Essays by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1854–1901 -- 1 “Address to the Legislature of New York, Albany, February 14, 1854” -- 2 “Address to the Legislature on Women’s Right of Suffrage, Albany, February 18, 1860” -- 3 “Address to the Tenth National Women’s Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860” -- 4 “Address to Anniversary of American Equal Rights Association,May 12, 1869, New York City” -- 5 “Subjection of Women” (1875) -- 6 “National Protection for National Citizens, Address to the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, January 11, 1878,Washington, D.C.” -- 7 “The Other Side of the Woman Question” (1879) -- 8 “Has Christianity Benefited Woman?” (1885) -- 9 “Divorce versus Domestic Warfare” (1890) -- 10 “The Matriarchate, or Mother-Age” (1891) -- 11 “Worship of God in Man” (1893) -- 12 Selections from The Woman’s Bible (1895, 1898) -- 13 “Our Proper Attitude toward Immigration” (1895) -- 14 “Significance and History of the Ballot” (1898) -- 15 “Progress of the American Woman” (1900) -- 16 “The Degradation of Disfranchisement” (1901) -- About the Contributors -- Index