TY - BOOK ID - 77871482 TI - The political thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton PY - 2008 SN - 0814785166 0814720293 9780814720295 9780814785164 9780814719985 0814719988 PB - New York New York University Press DB - UniCat KW - Feminist theory KW - Women's rights KW - Suffrage KW - Feminism KW - Feminist philosophy KW - Feminist sociology KW - Theory of feminism KW - Franchise KW - Right to vote KW - Voting rights KW - Political rights KW - Plebiscite KW - Representative government and representation KW - Voting KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Law and legislation KW - Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, KW - Cady, Elizabeth, KW - Stanton, Lizzie, KW - Stanton, E. Cady KW - Draws. KW - century. KW - important. KW - leaders. KW - most. KW - movement. KW - nineteenth. KW - primary. KW - rights. KW - secondary. KW - sources. KW - story. KW - tell. KW - variety. KW - wide. KW - womens. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871482 AB - 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement but was also the movement’s principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and challenged the conventions that so severely constrained women’s choices and excluded them from public life. In The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sue Davis argues that Cady Stanton’s work reflects the rich tapestry of American political culture in the second half of the nineteenth century and that she deserves recognition as a major figure in the history of political ideas. Davis reveals the way that Cady Stanton’s work drew from different political traditions ranging from liberalism, republicanism, inegalitarian ascriptivism, and radicalism. Cady Stanton’s arguments for women’s rights combined approaches that in contemporary feminist theory are perceived to involve conflicting strategies and visions. Nevertheless, her ideas had a major impact on the development of the varieties of feminism in the twentieth century. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton draws on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources and promises to fill a gap in the literature on the history of political ideas in the United States as well as women’s history and feminist theory. ER -