Ellen Carol DuBois author of ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON is the definitive biography of the suffragist and women’s rights pioneer and the first biography of Stanton in over fifteen years. Stanton was a singular leader, thinker, and organizer whose fight for women’s emancipation stretched from the 1840s to her death in 1902, a full fifth of America’s history. Yet her legacy has been marked by controversy. DuBois paints a fresh portrait of this complex crusader whose tireless work made contemporary feminism possible. Though most remembered for her fight for the vote, she was also an early crusader for women’s reproductive autonomy and reforming the institution of marriage, and against Christianity’s subordination of women. DuBois does not shy away from Stanton’s flaws: her cultural blind spots, her conflicts with Black reformers, and her elitism often shadowed her brilliance. Her rifts with Black reformers over the ratification of the 15th Amendment and embrace of nativist ideas, in particular, tarnished her reputation, but DuBois shows her words still have the ability to move and agitate people today. Building upon exhaustive archival research and a deep engagement with Stanton’s copious writings, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON brilliantly captures a crucial reformer in all of her intelligence, moral ambiguity, and power. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ellen Carol DuBois is distinguished professor of history at UCLA. Her pioneering works on the US woman suffrage movement include Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848–1869, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage, and Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. She lives in Los Angeles. Book talk in collaboration with Bank Square Books.

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