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aThe selected documents give a taste of Stantonas
often-contradictory ideas and successfully demonstrate how they
evolved over time under the influence of contemporary intellectual
movement. This work provides a solid basis for deeper
investigations into Stantonas role as a nineteenth-century feminist
thinker.a
--"Choice"
aThe editors are, there fore, successful in their aim: like her
or not, Stantonas ideas should be studied by any serious feminist,
historian or student of democracy at large.a
--"Feminist Review"
aIt is high time to respect Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a founding
thinker and actor in the shaping of American society, politics, and
ideas. This fascinating book enriches our understanding by giving
us her own most eloquent words accompanied by the wise evaluations
of some of our leading historians and writers.a--Linda K. Kerber,
author of "No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the
Obligations of Citizenship"
"I picked up this book wondering what, if anything, even these
formidable scholars could tell me about Elizabeth Cady Stanton that
I hadn't already read. I put it down in awe--with a new
appreciation of Stanton's brilliance, originality, and complexity
as the intellectual genius behind the first wave of feminism. Her
19th century vision resonates for everyone in 21st century
America."--Lynn Sherr, ABC News
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 bythe 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 CAndida Smith, Ellen Carol
DuBois, Ann D. Gordon, Vivian Gornick, Kathi Kern, Michele
Mitchell, and Christine Stansell.
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