The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880 to 1887

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity

The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention

From ForCarl
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902) , a life long friend of Susan B. Anthony, was an American feminist and social reformer and one of the leaders of the 19th century American women's rights morvement, often credited with initiating the organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an active abolitionists along with her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin Gerrit Smith before she settled on women's issues as her primary focus. Unlike many women of her era, Stanton was formally educated. She attended Johnstown Academy, where she studied Latin, Greek and mathematics until the age of 16. At the Academy, she enjoyed being in co-ed classes where she could compete intellectually and academically with boys her age and older. She did this very successfully, winning several academic awards and honors while a student in Johnstown. Elizabeth continued her education and enrolled in the Troy Siminary in Troy New York. Early during her student days in Troy, Stanton remembers being strongly influenced by Charles Finney, an evangelical preacher and revivalist. It seems his influence, combined with the Calvinistic Presbyterianism of her childhood, caused her great stress. After hearing Finney speak, Stanton became terrified of her own possible damnation: "Fear of judgment seized my soul. Visions of the lost haunted my dreams. Mental anguish prostrated my health. Dethronement of my reason was apprehended by my friends. Stanton credits her father and brother-in-law, Edward Bayard, with removing her from the situation and, after taking her on a rejuvenating trip to Niagara Falls, finally restoring her reason and sense of balance. She was never again to return to organized Christianity and, after this experience, always maintained that logic and a humane sense of ethics were the best guides to both thought and behavior.

From Wikipedia
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was a social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.
Along with her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an active abolitionist before she settled on women's issues as her primary focus. She was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th century temperance movement.
Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton addressed a number of issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family, and abortion.(more)

Profile of a Giant - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.”

Stanton's Address
Delivered at the Seneca Falls Convention
July 19, 1848

The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Biography

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Not For Ourselves Alone, PBS

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1999)
by John Patrick Michael Murphy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902) was the most famous freethinking woman of her day. She spent her life fighting for equal rights for all humanity. It started with slavery. She investigated it, root and branch, and shocked the abolitionists by declaring that the Bible and its clergy were the primary reasons for its existence in America.
Even before abolition was achieved, she turned her attention to the miserable niches her own sex occupied in society. Again she asserted the Bible and Christianity as the cause. Mainstream religion had an agenda for women — no divorce, no vote, no birth control, no right to own property, and no equality. “To me, there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social. It struck me as very remarkable that abolitionists, who felt so keenly the wrongs of the slave, should be so oblivious to the equal wrongs of their own mothers, wives, and sisters, when, according to the common law, both classes occupied a similar legal status.”

Religion and Women: Chains That
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by Susan Jacoby

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by MELISSA E. KOSS

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National Women's Hall of Fame to honor Martha Coffin Wright, Julia Child and seven others.
by Beth Beer Cuddy

A fresh perspective
Elective course gives students a new look at women’s contributions to America, world
by TERESA WILLIAMS

Teacher’s course shows important role of women in history
by SALLY BASHALANY
Hewitt divides American women’s history into three parts: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were the pioneers; the feminists of the 1960s and ’70s were the second wave, along with federal mandates; and the current generation.