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In its third edition this accessible and engaging collection of the writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony provides a critical overview of the lives, ideas and activism of two founders of the American feminist tradition. Introductory material has been extensively revised to reflect recent scholarship and provides historical context to selected letters, speeches, articles, reminiscences, arguments before courts, state legislatures and Congress. Of particular interest is new material concerning Cady Stanton's relationship with Frederick Douglass and Anthony's with Ida B. Wells.
List of contents
Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Third Edition
Part One. 1815-1861
Introduction: Before Seneca Falls
Document 1. Stanton, "Address Delivered at Waterloo New York about Seneca Falls Convention of July 19, 1848," September 1848
Document 2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass, First Meeting, c. 1840; Douglass at Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Document 3. "Immediate Causes of the Demand for Women's Political Rights" History of Woman Suffrage, volume 1, eds., Stanton, Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1881
Document 4. Anthony, Letter on Temperance, August 26, 1852; Stanton, "Appeal for the Maine Law," January 21, 1853
Document 5. Stanton and Anthony, Letters, 1852-1859
Document 6. Stanton, "Address to the Legislature of New York on Women's Rights," February 14, 1854
Document 7. Anthony, Diary of a Lecture Tour with Ernestine Rose to Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, 1854
Document 8. Stanton, "Speech to the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society," 1860
Part Two. 1863-1878
Introduction
Document 9. The Woman's National Loyal League, May 1863
Document 10. Stanton, "Speech at Lawrence, Kansas," 1867
Document 11. Stanton, "Manhood Suffrage," The Revolution, December 24, 1868
Document 12. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Debate the Fifteenth Amendment at the May 1869 American Equal Rights Association
Document 13. Anthony, "Constitutional Argument," 1873
Document 14. Stanton, "Speech to the McFarland-Richardson Protest Meeting," May 1870
Document 15. Anthony, "Suffrage and the Working Woman," 1871
Document 16. Stanton, "Home Life," c. 1875
Document 17. Anthony, "Homes of Single Women," October, 1877
Part Three. 1880-1906
Introduction: Anthony and the Consolidation of the Women's Movement
Document 18. Stanton on Fredrick Douglass' Second Marriage; Douglass Response, 1884
Document 19. Anthony, "Organization Among Women," Columbian Exposition, 1893
Document 20. Anthony and Ida B. Wells, Friendship, 1894-1895
Document 21. Stanton, "Address to the Founding Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association," February 1890
Document 22. Stanton, "Educated Suffrage Justified"; Harriot Stanton Blatch, "An Open Letter to Mrs. Stanton," 1894
Document 23. Stanton, "The Solitude of Self," January 18, 1892
Document 24. Stanton, "Introduction" and Commentaries on Genesis, Chapters 1-4, The Woman's Bible; Anthony, Response to the NAWSA Resolution Disavowing The Woman's Bible; Stanton, Draft of "Criticism of Bigotry of Women"
Document 25. Anna Howard Shaw, "The Passing of Aunt Susan"; Helen Gardener, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton"
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Ellen Carol DuBois is the author of numerous histories of suffrage and women's rights, in the U.S. and internationally. She is a distinguished research professor at UCLA and resides in Los Angeles.
Summary
In its third edition this accessible and engaging collection of the writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony provides a critical overview of the lives, ideas and activism of two founders of the American feminist tradition.
