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.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni AssociationMuch has been written about women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians have written her biography, detailed her campaign for woman’s suffrage, documented her partnership with Susan B. Anthony, and compiled all of her extensive writings and papers. Stanton herself was a prolific author; her autobiography, History of Woman Suffrage, and Woman’s Bible are classics. Despite this body of work, scholars and feminists continue to find new and insightful ways to re-examine Stanton and her impact on women’s rights and history. Law scholar Tracy A. Thomas extends this discussion of Stanton’s impact on modern-day feminism by analyzing her intellectual contributions to—and personal experiences with—family law. Stanton’s work on family issues has been overshadowed by her work (especially with Susan B. Anthony) on woman’s suffrage. But throughout her fifty-year career, Stanton emphasized reform of the private sphere of the family as central to achieving women’s equality. By weaving together law, feminist theory, and history, Thomas explores Stanton’s little-examined philosophies on and proposals for women’s equality in marriage, divorce, and family, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles in the family that came to the fore in the 1960s and ’70s had nineteenth-century roots. Using feminist legal theory as a lens to interpret Stanton’s political, legal, and personal work on the family, Thomas argues that Stanton’s positions on divorce, working mothers, domestic violence, childcare, and many other topics were strikingly progressive for her time, providing significant parallels from which to gauge the social and legal policy issues confronting women in marriage and the family today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Introduction

1. “What Do You Women Want?”

2. “The Pivot of the Marriage Relation”

3. “Divorce Is Not the Foe of Marriage”

4. The “Incidental Relation” of Mother

5. Raising “Our Girls”

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781479876815

147987681X

9781479853892

1479853895

OCLC:

962306063