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.
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