Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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This paper discusses the life and achievements of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was one of the most prominent leaders of her time for women's rights. The paper discusses her fight calling for women's right to vote in the United States. The paper also compares her life and achievements to those of Lucretia Mott and her long-time friend, Susan B. Anthony, who were also both very active in women's rights.

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"In 1878, nearly 30 years after the first convention aimed at working for women's suffrage, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Stanton wrote Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States, which Anthony delivered at the Centennial Celebration of 1876 in Washington, DC (NPS, PAGE). Gage and Stanton remained interested in other social issues as well, and started working on a "Woman's Bible" that would present Christian beliefs without encouraging the subjugation or devaluing of women (NPS, PAGE). Once Stanton's children had all achieved adulthood, she became president of the National Woman Suffrage Association and later of the National (Griffith, 170)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Columbia Encyclopedia. "Stanton, Elizabeth Cady." Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05.
• Griffith, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Oxford University Press, 1984.
• Leuchtag, Alice. 1996. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton: freethinker and radical revisionist." The Humanist, September.
• National Park Service (NPS). 1980. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." Women's Rights. Dec. 28. Accessed via the Internet 5/17/06. <http://www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm>
• Siegel, Reva B. 1996. "'The Rule of Love': Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy." Yale Law Journal, Vol. 105.

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