Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life - Couverture souple

Ginzberg, Lori D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374532397 ISBN 13 : 9780374532390

Editeur : Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Stanton is a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts who turned the limitations placed on women like herself into a universal philosophy of equal rights. This book captures Stanton's ambiguous place in the world of reformers and intellectuals, and describes how she changed the world. Full description

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In this subtly crafted biography, the historian Lori D. Ginzberg narrates the life of a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts who turned the limitations placed on women like herself into a universal philosophy of equal rights. Few could match Stanton s self-confidence; loving an argument, she rarely wavered in her assumption that she had won. But she was no secular saint, and her positions were not always on the side of the broadest possible conception of justice and social change. Elitism runs through Stanton s life and thought, defined most often by class, frequently by race, and always by intellect. Even her closest friends found her absolutism both thrilling and exasperating, for Stanton could be an excellent ally and a bothersome menace, sometimes simultaneously. At once critical and admiring, Ginzberg s book captures Stanton s ambiguous place in the world of reformers and intellectuals, describes how she changed the world, and suggests that she left a mixed legacy that continues to haunt American feminism.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0374532397
• ISBN 13: 9780374532390
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272