Bøger af Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"I am moved to recall what I can of my early days, what I thought and felt, that grown people may have a better understanding of children and do more for their happiness and development. I see so much tyranny exercised over children, even by well-disposed parents, and in so many varied forms, --a tyranny to which these parents are themselves insensible, --that I desire to paint my joys and sorrows in as vivid colors as possible, in the hope that I may do something to defend the weak from the strong...." Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900. Contents: - Childhood - School Days - Girlhood - Life at Peterboro - Our Wedding Journey - Homeward Bound - Motherhood - Boston and Chelsea - The First Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony - My First Speech Before a Legislature - Reforms and Mobs - Views on Marriage and Divorce - Women as Patriots - Pioneer Life in Kansas--Our Newspaper, "The Revolution" - Lyceums and Lecturers - Westward Ho! - The Spirit of '76 - Writing "The History of Woman Suffrage" - In the South of France - Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain - Woman and Theology - England and France Revisited - The International Council of Women - My Last Visit to England - Sixtieth Anniversary of the Class of 1832--The Woman's Bible - My Eightieth Birthday

By producing the book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wished to promote a radical liberating theology, one that stressed self-development. The Woman's Bible is a two-volumebook, written by Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. Contents: - Comments on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy - The Book of Genesis - The Book of Exodus - The Book of Leviticus - The Book of Numbers - The Book of Deuteronomy - The Pentateuch - Comments on the Old and New Testaments From Joshua to Revelation - The Book of Joshua - The Book of Judges - The Book of Ruth - Books of Samuel - Books of Kings - The Book of Esther - The Book of Job - Books of Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon - Books of Isaiah and Daniel, Micah and Malachi - The Kabbalah - The New Testament - The Book of Matthew - The Book of Mark - The Book of Luke - The Book of John - The Book of Acts - Epistle to the Romans - Epistles to the Corinthians - Epistles to the Ephesians and Phillippians - Epistles to Timothy - Epistles of Peter and John - Revelation

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in 1815, was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women''s rights movement. Along with her friend Susan B. Anthony, Canton was one of the very prominent faces of Women''s Movement in America. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women''s rights and women''s suffrage movements in USA. Unlike her contemporaries, Stanton was also interested in various other issues pertaining to women like their parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce, the economic health of the family, and birth control until her death in 1905. But even before being a suffragist, she had also been a champion of Abolitionist cause and envisaged the dream of a just society since the very beginning of her life. This edition brings to you the famed autobiography of this courageous woman in celebration of the undying spirit of freedom, equality and woman power. "I am moved to recall what I can of my early days, what I thought and felt, that grown people may have a better understanding of children and do more for their happiness and development. I see so much tyranny exercised over children, even by well-disposed parents, and in so many varied forms,-a tyranny to which these parents are themselves insensible,-that I desire to paint my joys and sorrows in as vivid colors as possible, in the hope that I may do something to defend the weak from the strong...."

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The fourth volume of ""The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony"", this book documents the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers.

Through their letters, speeches, articles and diaries, this volume recounts the national careers of Stanton and Anthony as popular lecturers, their work with members of Congress to expand women's rights and the launch of their campaign for a 16th amendment in the Centennial Year of 1876.

This work is a collection of texts which document the lives and accomplishments of two of America's significant social and political reformers. This first volume recounts a quarter of a century of staunch commitment to political change leading up to the ratification of the 14th Ammendment.

Book-by-book examination of the Bible by pioneer in women's rights movement places events in their historical context, interprets passages as both allegory and fact, and compares them with myths of other cultures. In the tradition of radical individualism, Stanton's attack on religious orthodoxy represents a political treatise rather than a scholarly work.