The autobiography of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady
Stanton--published for the 100th anniversary of women's
suffrage--including an updated introduction and afterword from
noted scholars of women's history Ellen Carol DuBois and Ann D.
Gordon. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897, is one of
the great American autobiographies. There is really no other
American woman's autobiography in the nineteenth century that comes
near it in relevance, excellence, and historical significance. In
1848, thirty-three-year-old Stanton and four others organized the
first major women's rights meeting in American history. Together
with Susan B. Anthony, her partner in the cause, she led the
campaign for women's legal rights, most prominently woman suffrage,
for the rest of the century. In those years, Stanton was the
movement's spokeswoman, theorist, and its visionary. In addition to
her suffrage activism, she was a pioneering advocate of women's
reproductive freedom, and a ceaseless critic of religious misogyny.
As the mother of seven, she also had pronounced opinions on women's
domestic responsibilities, especially on raising children. In
Eighty Years and More, Stanton reminisces about dramatic moments in
the history of woman suffrage, about her personal challenges and
triumphs, and about the women and men she met in her travels around
the United States and abroad. Stanton's writing retains its vigor,
intelligence, and wit. Much of what she had to say about women,
their lives, their frustrations, their aspirations and their
possibilities, remains relevant and moving today.
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