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Mrs. Stanton's Bible /

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 ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kern, Kathi, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.