Mrs. Stanton's Bible / Kathi Kern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kern, Kathi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 Woman's Bible.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.

Bible--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Feminism--United States--History--19th century.

Feminism.

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

Women's rights.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 288 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 called for women's right to vote. Yet she spent the last two decades of her life working for another cause: women's liberation from religious oppression. Stanton came to believe that political enfranchisement was meaningless without the systematic dismantling of the church's stifling authority over women's lives. In 1895, she collaboratively authored this biblical exegesis, just as the women's movement was becoming more conservative. Stanton found herself arguing not only against male clergy members but also against devout female suffragists. Kathi Kern demonstrates that the Woman's Bible itself played a fundamental role in the movement's new conservatism because it sparked Stanton's censure and the elimination of her fellow radicals from the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Stanton's Bible dramatically portrays this crucial chapter of women's history and facilitates the understanding of one of the movement's most controversial texts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-271) and index.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501731518

1501731513

OCLC:

1132220702