Mrs. Stanton's Bible / / Kathi Kern.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kern, Kathi,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 13 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. "The Sunset of Life": Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Polemics of Autobiography --; 2. The "Emasculated Gospel": New Religions, New Bibles, and the Battle for Cultural Authority --; 3. Sacred Politics: Religion, Race, and the Transformation of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Gilded Age --; 4. "A Great Feature of the General Uprising": The Revising Committee and the Woman's Bible --; 5. "The Bigots Promote the Sale": Responses to the Woman's Bible --; List of Archival Abbreviations --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501731518; 9783110536157
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501731518
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kathi Kern.

Mrs. Stanton's Bible traces the impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's religious dissent on the suffrage movement at the turn of the century and presents the first book-length reading of her radical text, the Woman's Bible. Stanton is best remembered for organizing the Seneca Falls convention at which she first called for women's right to vote. Yet she spent the last two decades of her life working for another cause: women's liberation from religious oppression. Stanton came to believe that political enfranchisement was meaningless without the systematic dismantling of the church's stifling authority over women's lives. In 1895, she collaboratively authored this biblical exegesis, just as the women's movement was becoming more conservative. Stanton found herself arguing not only against male clergy members but also against devout female suffragists. Kathi Kern demonstrates that the Woman's Bible itself played a fundamental role in the movement's new conservatism because it sparked Stanton's censure and the elimination of her fellow radicals from the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Stanton's Bible dramatically portrays this crucial chapter of women's history and facilitates the understanding of one of the movement's most controversial texts.