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Introduction / Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith

The Essays

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the long view / Vivian Gornick

Missed connections: abolitionist feminism in the nineteenth century / Christine Stansell

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart Mill and the nature of feminist thought / Barbara Caine

Stanton on self and community / Richard Cándida Smith

"The pivot of the marriage relation": Stanton's analysis of women's subordination in marriage / Ellen Carol DuBois

"Free woman is a divine being, the savior of mankind": Stanton's exploration of religion and gender / Kathi Kern

Stanton and the right to vote: on account of race or sex / Ann D. Gordon

"Lower orders," racial hierarchies, and rights rhetoric: evolutionary echoes in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's thought during the late 1860s / Michele Mitchell

A selection of speeches, articles, and essays by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1854-1901

"Address to the legislature of New York, Albany, February 14, 1854"

"Address to the legislature on women's right of suffrage, Albany, February 18, 1860"

"Address to tenth national women's rights convention on marriage and divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860"

"Address to anniversary of American equal rights association, May 12, 1869, New York City"

"Subjection of women" (1875)

"National protection for national citizens, address to the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, January 11, 1878, Washington, D.C."

"The other side of the woman question" (1879)

"Has Christianity benefited woman" (1885)

"Divorce versus domestic warfare" (1890)

"The matriarchate: or mother-age" (1891)

"Worship of God in man" (1893)

Selections from the woman's bible (1895, 1898)

"Our proper attitude toward immigration" (1895)

"Significance and history of the ballot" (1898)

"Progress of the American woman" (1900)

"The degradation of disfranchisement" (1901)

About the contributors.

Suffragists > United States > Biography.

Feminists > United States > Biography.

Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century.