Title Mrs. Stanton's Bible / Kathi Kern

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations, portraits Contents List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "The sunset of life" : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the polemics of autobiography -- 2. The "emasculated gospel" : new religions, new Bibles, and the battle for cultural authority -- 3. Sacred politics : religion, race, and the transformation of the woman suffrage movement in the gilded age -- 4. "A great feature of the general uprising": the revising committee and the Woman's Bible -- 5. "The bigots promote the sale" : responses to the Woman's Bible -- List of archival abbreviations -- Notes -- Index Summary Traces the impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's religious dissent on the suffrage movement at the turn of the century and presents the first book-length reading of her radical text, the Woman's Bible. Stanton is best remembered for organizing the Seneca Falls convention at which she first called for women's right to vote. Yet she spent the last two decades of her life working for another cause: women's liberation from religious oppression. Stanton came to believe that political enfranchisement was meaningless without the systematic dismantling of the church's stifling authority over women's lives. In 1895, she collaboratively authored this biblical exegesis, just as the women's movement was becoming more conservative. Stanton found herself arguing not only against male clergy members but also against devout female suffragists. Kathi Kern demonstrates that the Woman's Bible itself played a fundamental role in the movement's new conservatism because it sparked Stanton's censure and the elimination of her fellow radicals from the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Stanton's Bible dramatically portrays this crucial chapter of women's history and facilitates the understanding of one of the movement's most controversial texts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902. Woman's Bible SUBJECT Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902. Woman's Bible Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 fast Stanton, Elizabeth, (1815-1902) ram Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. swd Bible -- Feminist criticism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004310 Bible fast Woman's Bible (Stanton, Elizabeth Cady) fast Bible -- Critique féministe. ram Woman's Bible. swd Subject Feminists -- United States -- Biography Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century Feminists -- United States -- Biography HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Feminist criticism Feminists Women's rights Feminismus Vrouwenbeweging. Bijbels. Religiekritiek. Féminisme -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme. Femmes -- Droits -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle. United States USA Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501731518 1501731513

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