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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume 5
Price: $70.00
Subtitle: Their Place Inside
the Body-Politic, 1887 to 1895
Editor:
Ann D. Gordon
Subject: History,
Women's
Studies
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-2321-7
Pages: 736 pages
Publication Date: June 2009
Praise for the earlier
volumes:
“This is one of the great historical
projects of our generation.”
—Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies:
Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
“An extraordinary scholarly achievement [that] has restored these
unparalleled historical figures to their deserved national reputations.”
—Ellen Carol DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles
Description:
Their Place Inside the Body-Politic is a phrase Susan
B.
Anthony used to express her aspiration for something women had not
achieved, but it also describes the woman suffrage movement’s
transformation into a political body between 1887 and 1895. This fifth
volume opens in February 1887, just after the U.S. Senate had rejected
woman suffrage, and closes in November 1895 with Stanton’s grand
birthday party at the Metropolitan Opera House.
At the beginning, Stanton and Anthony focus their attention
on organizing the
International Council of Women in 1888. Late in 1887, Lucy Stone’s
American Woman Suffrage Association announced its desire to merge with
the national association led by Stanton and Anthony. Two years of
fractious negotiations preceded the 1890 merger, and years of sharp
disagreements followed. Stanton made her last trip to Washington in
1892 to deliver her famous speech “Solitude of Self.” Two states
enfranchised women—Wyoming in 1890 and Colorado in 1893—but failures
were numerous. Anthony returned to grueling fieldwork in South Dakota
in 1890 and Kansas and New York in 1894. From the campaigns of 1894,
Stanton emerged as an advocate of educated suffrage and staunchly
defended her new position.
About the Author:
Ann D. Gordon is a
research professor in the department of history at Rutgers University.
She is the editor of this six-volume series.
Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission.
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/index.html
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