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Elizabeth Cady Stanton A Radical For Women's Rights Summary

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The book “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women’s Rights” was not a very good book. It was very boring, and nothing in it was very motivational to keep reading; however it is a good way to learn about the most important pioneers for the women’s movement in America in the 19th century. The thesis statement in the very beginning of the book gives a very clear point to what the book is going to be about. In this book critique, the reader will get a brief overview about what is going on in the book, the author, and how the author writes her novels. The author of the book is Lois W. Banner. She is a very educated woman, and she has a very well writing style. She really knew what she was talking about when writing this book. She did leave …show more content…

Banner writes about the personal relationships, as well as the philosophical areas of the women's rights. None of her letters or anything are actually added into this book, she tries to give ideas and details without them. Banner talks about Stanton’s role in the women's rights and suffrages, and also examines Stanton's relationships with her husband, Susan B. Anthony, and other leading feminists of the nineteenth century also. This book, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women’s Rights,” is similar to many other books in history. There is many novels overs women’s suffrage because it was a big part of many people’s life. The novel that is the most similar to Banners book, would have to be “In Her Own Right,” by Elisabeth Griffith. It talks about women’s suffrage, but the main point and character of the book is about Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The book is not interesting and very boring, but it may be good for older people to read because they may actually know what is going on with the women’s rights and suffrage, unlike younger adults or students. If a young adult or a student try to read this they will most likely get very bored, and stop reading it at the very beginning because it is that awful of a book; however, people that enjoy history and learning about others, this would be a great book for them to

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However, when thought of, most people remember her contributions to the women’s rights movement. She, and other feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, began to realize that there were numerous similarities between slaves and women. Both were fighting to get away from the male-dominated culture and beliefs. In 1848, these women began a convention in Seneca Falls, regarding women’s rights(Brinkley 330). They believed that women should be able to vote, basing their argument on the clause “all men and women are created equal”.

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Anthony made one of the largest social transformations in American history. Ward supports this by showing the public and private life of Anthony and Stanton. The unlikely partnership and friendship of these two important women is showed in great detail and was based in the belief of women's rights, despite the two women being entirely different. Stanton was wealthy, a good writer, and radical thinker but also a mother and wife, and Anthony came from a Quaker family and was eager for action and ready to work because she was unmarried. Ward argues that this is one of the reasons that they worked so well together.

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Stanton knew champions of legal reforms, had friends and husband in the Free-Soil party, and had a devoted friendship to Loretta Mott who was involved with the Quaker as Waterloo (Wellman, 28). Stanton was the answer to why people came to the convention and the acts leading up to the convention helped rationalize the necessity of the convention, so women could gain

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were primary leaders of the American women’s movement. Together and separately Stanton and Anthony were extremely influential in the effort toward women’s rights. Both women organized and lectured at several conventions. These conventions ranged from local, state, and national. In fact, Stanton organized the first women’s rights convention in 1848.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a nineteenth century woman’s suffrage and civil rights activist of which she held strong beliefs in exalting the rights of women during this time era. Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, November 1815 into a socially well-known family within this community, where she was also placed into the highest forms of education that women and girls could receive for this time period. Stanton’s education began at Johnstown Academy and then continued at Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in New York. She married Henry Stanton around the year 1840 and the couple had seven children together.

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Stanton believed that a public protest of women’s right was the next step to get equality for women’s legal position. By this belief, Stanton tried to make a draft of “Declaration of Right and Sentiments”, which she modeled after the “Declaration of Independence”. In this declaration, Stanton demanded moral, economic and political equality for women. With her friends, Stanton was able to hold the first women’s right convention on 19-20 July 1848 at Stanton house in Seneca Falls, New York. That is why; the convention is called Seneca Falls Convention.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a major leader in the women’s rights movement during the 1800s. She worked hard and went over many obstacles to help earn basic rights for women. It describes this very well in the first passage. The second passage is more about the teamwork of her and Susan. Elizabeth was described more in passage 1 rather than 2.

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Abigayle Sledz HIST 1301/1302 October 4, 2016 Renée Celeste CATCHY TITE (REPLACE) Within the book Elizabeth Cady Stanton A Radical for Women’s Rights, Louis W. Banner takes a unique view point on the Feminism movements in which Cady Stanton was actively involved in. Having grown up in a similar household as Cady, Banner possessed many comparable views on social standards as she did. But unlike Cady, Banner was a man enforcing feminism.

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She was born to a lawyer that had no problem expressing favoritism toward his son and a mother who was sweet and taught her children to follow their dreams. According to USC Dornsife, Lois W. Banner “is a graduate of UCLA, with a Master's Degree in European History and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in American history, Lois Banner was a founder of the field of women's history in the 1970s. ” I believe Banner was inspired to write about Elizabeth Cady Stanton because she has written many books on the background of women and gender in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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