The political thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton : women's rights and the American political traditions / Sue Davis.

Author/creator Davis, Sue, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 299 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the multiple traditions -- Seneca Falls and beyond : attacking the cult of domesticity with equality and inalienable rights -- The 1850s : married women's property rights, divorce, and temperance -- Gatherings of unsexed women : separate spheres and women's rights -- The Civil War years : breaking down boundaries between public and private -- The postwar years : reconstruction and positivism -- The postwar years : the new departure, the alliance with labor, and the critique of marriage -- Not the word of God but the work of man : Cady Stanton's critique of religion -- "In the long weary march, each one walks alone" : evolution and anglo-saxonism at century's end -- Multiple feminisms and multiple traditions : Elizabeth Cady Stanton in American political thought.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-279) and index.
LCCN 2007043896
ISBN9780814719985 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0814719988 (cl : alk. paper)

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