ISBN:
0814719821
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9780814719817
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0814719813
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9780814719824
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 328 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker : A Reader in Documents and Essays
DDC:
305.42092
Keywords:
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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Women's rights History 19th century
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Feminists Biography
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Suffragists Biography
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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Electronic books
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Biografie
Abstract:
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. El
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: The Essays; 1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Long View; 2 Missed Connections: Abolitionist Feminism in the Nineteenth Century; 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": Stanton's Analysis of Women's Subordination in Marriage; 6 "Free Woman Is a Divine Being, the Savior of Mankind": Stanton's Exploration of Religion and Gender; 7 Stanton and the Right to Vote: On Account of Race or Sex
Description / Table of Contents:
8 "Lower Orders," Racial Hierarchies, and Rights Rhetoric: Evolutionary Echoes in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Thought during the Late 1860sPART 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"
Description / Table of Contents:
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)
Description / Table of Contents:
16 "The Degradation of Disfranchisement" (1901)About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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