Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
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In this subtly crafted biography, the historian Lori D. Ginzberg narrates the life of the founding philosopher of the American movement for women's rights, a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts. Here, Elizabeth Cady Stanton comes across as larger than life, driven by her commitment to rouse herself, and everyone else, to rethink and remake women's status in politics, law, religion, and marriage. In her own time she was a dangerous radical, a force to be reckoned with and a household name. At once critical and admiring, Ginzberg captures Stanton's ambiguous place in her own community of reformers and intellectuals, describes how she changed the world, and reveals how Stanton's legacy has shaped American feminism in significant and complex ways. Theresa McDevitt - Library Journal Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the 19th century's best-known feminists and advocates of women's suffrage. Nearly forgotten in the early 20th century, she has since been noted for her significant contributions by biographers and documentary filmmakers. But have they adequately dealt with the complexity and contradictory aspects of her character? Ginzberg (history, Penn State Univ.; Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York), a leading scholar in the area of 19th-century women's benevolence and reform work, argues that they have not. In this well-documented work, she successfully takes on the task herself. VERDICT Ginzberg has produced a readable and realistic account of the life of one of the most important feminists and intellectuals of the 19th century, a woman who was at once an abolitionist who could sound like a racist and an advocate of civil rights for women whose language often reeked of elitism. This work promises to be a classic and is recommended for all readers, along with Ellen DuBois's recent Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays.-Theresa McDevitt, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib.
Introduction 31 The Two Worlds of Elizabeth Cady (1815-1840) 152 "Long-Accumulating Discontent" (1840-1851) 433 "At the Boiling Point" (1851-1861) 774 War and Reconstruction (1861-1868) 1035 Revolution and the Road (1868-1880) 1336 Making a Place in History (1880-1902) 153Conclusion 189Notes 197Bibliography 231Acknowledgments 237Index 239
