Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the feminist foundations of family law / Tracy A. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Tracy A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902--Influence.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.

Domestic relations--United States--History--19th century.

Domestic relations.

Feminist jurisprudence--United States--History--19th century.

Feminist jurisprudence.

Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.

Women's rights.

History.

United States.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Much has been written about women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from biographies to compilations of her extensive writings and papers. Stanton herself was a prolific author; her autobiography, History of Woman Suffrage, and The Woman's Bible are classics. However, scholars and feminists continue to find new, insightful ways to re-examine Stanton's impact on women's rights and history. Law scholar Tracy A. Thomas discusses Stanton's impact on modern-day feminism by analyzing her intellectual contributions to-and personal experiences with-family law. Stanton's work on woman's suffrage has historically overshadowed her work on family issues, but throughout her fifty-year career, Stanton emphasized reform of the private sphere of the family as central to achieving women's equality. Weaving together law, feminist theory, and history, Thomas explores Stanton's philosophies and proposals for women's equality in marriage, divorce, and maternity, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles in the family from the 1960s and '70s had nineteenth-century roots. Applying feminist legal theory, Thomas argues that Stanton's positions on family equality were strikingly progressive, providing parallels and solutions to the issues confronting women today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Introduction: the "radical conscience" of nineteenth-century feminism

"What do you women want?"

"The pivot of the marriage relation"

"Divorce is not the foe of marriage"

The "incidental relation" of mother

Raising "our" girls?

Conclusion : "still many obstacles"

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index.

ISBN:

9780814783047

081478304X

OCLC:

950544710