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.
Together the volumes in this set offer an extraordinary collection that tells a story-both personal and public, about abolition, temperance, and woman suffrage and provides the most extensive in-depth look at the lives and accomplishments ...
Their place inside the body-politic, 1887 to 1895
Stanton participated in transcendentalist writer Margaret Fuller's small-group conversations in Boston in 1843, when Fuller wrote the “The Great Lawsuit” and its expanded book form, Woman in the Nineteenth Century.63 Fuller argued that ...
Longtime leader of the American women’s rights movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with the help of a committee of 26 other activist women, composed this work of nonfiction as a commentary on the Bible’s portrayal of women.
Some British women adopted the term feminist; English suffragette Ethel Arnold gave a lecture on the feminist movement in . She believed the enfranchisement of women would raise their “whole mental and moral status” and ...
Taken together, these essays and documents reveal the different facets, enduring insights, and fascinating contradictions of the work of one of the great thinkers of the feminist tradition.