Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction   Ellen Carol DuBois   Richard Candida Smith     1
The Essays
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Long View   Vivian Gornick     17
Missed Connections: Abolitionist Feminism in the Nineteenth Century   Christine Stansell     32
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart Mill, and the Nature of Feminist Thought   Barbara Caine     50
Stanton on Self and Community   Richard Candida Smith     66
"The Pivot of the Marriage Relation": Stanton's Analysis of Women's Subordination in Marriage   Ellen Carol DuBois     82
"Free Woman Is a Divine Being, the Savior of Mankind": Stanton's Exploration of Religion and Gender   Kathi Kern     93
Stanton and the Right to Vote: On Account of Race or Sex   Ann D. Gordon     111
"Lower Orders," Racial Hierarchies, and Rights Rhetoric: Evolutionary Echoes in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Thought during the Late 1860s   Michele Mitchell     128
A Selection of Speeches, Articles, and Essays by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1854-1901
"Address to the Legislature of New York, Albany, February 14, 1854"     155
"Address to the Legislature on Women's Right of Suffrage, Albany, February 18, 1860"     170
"Address to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriageand Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860"     179
"Address to Anniversary of American Equal Rights Association, May 12,1869, New York City"     187
"Subjection of Women" (1875)     206
"National Protection for National Citizens, Address to the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, January 11, 1878, Washington, D.C."     219
"The Other Side of the Woman Question" (1879)     235
"Has Christianity Benefited Woman?" (1885)     243
"Divorce versus Domestic Warfare" (1890)     254
"The Matriarchate, or Mother-Age" (1891)     264
"Worship of God in Man" (1893)     276
Selections from The Woman's Bible (1895, 1898)     282
"Our Proper Attitude toward Immigration" (1895)     296
"Significance and History of the Ballot" (1898)     301
"Progress of the American Woman" (1900)     307
"The Degradation of Disfranchisement" (1901)     312
About the Contributors     321
Index     323