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Ellen Carol DuBois. Elizabeth Cady Stanton : A Revolutionary Life. New York, New York : Basic Books, 2026

Abstract

"Elizabeth Cady 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. In this landmark biography, eminent historian Ellen Carol DuBois paints a fresh portrait of this complex crusader whose tireless work made contemporary feminism possible"--Jacket.

Contents

Origins -- Early years -- First freedoms -- Marriage and motherhood -- Seneca Falls Convention -- Babies and radicalism -- Civil War -- Early Reconstruction and Universal Suffrage -- Late Reconstruction and NWSA -- New Departure, Woodhull, Beecher -- Entering the Gilded Age -- Resetting the future; revisiting the past -- First trip abroad -- Returning home -- Second trip abroad -- Internationalization and unification -- The 1890s: British ideas, American developments -- The Woman's Bible -- Final campaigns, final years -- The afterlife of Elizabeth Cady Stanton