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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony #3
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880
National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880 is the third of six planned volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony . The entire collection documents the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause of woman suffrage. The third volume of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opens while woman suffragists await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in cases testing whether the Constitution recognized women as voters within the terms of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. At its close they are pursuing their own amendment to the Constitution and pressing the presidential candidates of 1880 to speak in its favor. Through their letters, speeches, articles, and diaries, the volume recounts the national careers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as popular lecturers, their work with members of Congress to expand women's rights, their protests during the Centennial Year of 1876, and the launch that same year of their campaign for a Sixteenth Amendment.
648 pages, Hardcover
Published June 9, 2003
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Ann D. Gordon
18 books1 followerAnn Dexter Gordon, is Research Professor Emerita of history at Rutgers University and editor of the six-volume Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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August 31, 2022
I read only the speeches and articles for publication by Elizabeth Cady Stanton from this volume, as I am interested in her thought rather than the women's movement right now.
You can see the steam gathering, the frustration rising, and the increasing throw-caution-to-the-winds attitude in most of them. You can also see her interests spreading to wider instances of misogyny and restriction of freedoms than just the original women's movement issues, perhaps as she realized the vote was not really likely to happen in her lifetime. In particular, her caustic remarks in 'The Bible and Woman Suffrage' pull out all the stops, and led to problems for the movement.
Yet when the occasion required, she could present a formal case precisely crafted for the situation. In her testimony before a Congressional subcommittee considering the proposed 16th amendment to guarantee suffrage to women, she is eloquent. She cites case law (much developed by a pioneering woman attorney affiliated with the movement, although Stanton spent much time in her girlhood in her father's law office and was married to an attorney) and uses logic and history to prove the hypocrisy in the arguments of opponents to women's rights.
The book provides extensive notes that illuminate details in the speeches and letters. There is not much introduction to the important speeches and articles though, so you have to get the context and consequences from other reading.
The items that I didn't read are all of Susan B. Anthony's writing, and Stanton's short letters to family and colleagues with mostly news and logistics. Note that is is only the penultimate volume in a five volume set.
You can see the steam gathering, the frustration rising, and the increasing throw-caution-to-the-winds attitude in most of them. You can also see her interests spreading to wider instances of misogyny and restriction of freedoms than just the original women's movement issues, perhaps as she realized the vote was not really likely to happen in her lifetime. In particular, her caustic remarks in 'The Bible and Woman Suffrage' pull out all the stops, and led to problems for the movement.
Yet when the occasion required, she could present a formal case precisely crafted for the situation. In her testimony before a Congressional subcommittee considering the proposed 16th amendment to guarantee suffrage to women, she is eloquent. She cites case law (much developed by a pioneering woman attorney affiliated with the movement, although Stanton spent much time in her girlhood in her father's law office and was married to an attorney) and uses logic and history to prove the hypocrisy in the arguments of opponents to women's rights.
The book provides extensive notes that illuminate details in the speeches and letters. There is not much introduction to the important speeches and articles though, so you have to get the context and consequences from other reading.
The items that I didn't read are all of Susan B. Anthony's writing, and Stanton's short letters to family and colleagues with mostly news and logistics. Note that is is only the penultimate volume in a five volume set.
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