The massive size of the original six-volume "History of Woman Suffrage has likely limited its impact on the lives of the women who benefitted from the efforts of the pioneering suffragists. By collecting miscellanies like state suffrage reports and speeches of every sort without interpretation or restraint, the set was often neglected as impenetrable. In their "Concise History of Woman Suffrage, Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle have revitalized this classic text by carefully selecting from among its best material. The eighty-two chosen documents now include interpretative introductory material by...

In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840-1866 is the first of six volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The collection documents the lives and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause. Their names were synonymous with woman suffrage in the United States and around the world as they mobilized thousands of women to fight for the right to a political voice. Opening when...

"Volume two of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is a marvel. . . . Just about everything Anthony and Stanton have to say has some interest. What I particularly like about Selected Papers is that it can be dipped into for information or read consecutively as a fascinating biography of the two pioneering feminists."-National Women's Studies Association Journal Against an Aristocracy of Sex, 1866 to 1873 is the second of six planned volumes of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The entire collection documents the friendship and...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed this to be the most important speech of her lifetime. With gorgeous and direct language, she presents a compassionate appeal for human equality and dignity, and she addresses the place of solitude in the lives of women and men. "Solitude of Self" joins the canon of classic American speeches. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's timeless appeal presents the historical convergence between the 19th and the 21st centuries. In this last speech, Stanton proves that while many rights have been gained over the past century, inequality and degradation of the soul continue to...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a 19th century leading figure in the womens movement and a social activist. In 1848 she presented her Declaration of Sentiments to the first womens rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton addressed a broad range of issues besides suffrage. She spoke out on womens parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family, and birth control. The purpose of the Womans Bible was, "The object is to revise only those texts and chapters directly referring to women, and those also in which...

The Woman's Bible is a two-part book, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. By producing the book, Stanton wished to promote a radical liberating theology, one that stressed self-development. The Woman's Bible attracted a great deal of controversy and antagonism at its introduction.