Mrs. Stanton's Bible

AvKathi Kern

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Mrs. Stanton's Bible traces the impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's religious dissent on the suffrage movement at the turn of the century and presents the first book-length reading of her radical text, the Woman's Bible. Stanton is best remembered for organizing the Seneca Falls convention at which she first called for women's right to vote. Yet she spent the last two decades of her life working for another cause: women's liberation from religious oppression. Stanton came to believe that political enfranchisement was meaningless without the systematic dismantling of the church's stifling authority over women's lives. In 1895, she collaboratively authored this biblical exegesis, just as the women's movement was becoming more conservative. Stanton found herself arguing not only against male clergy members but also against devout female suffragists. Kathi Kern demonstrates that the Woman's Bible itself played a fundamental role in the movement's new conservatism because it sparked Stanton's censure and the elimination of her fellow radicals from the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Stanton's Bible dramatically portrays this crucial chapter of women's history and facilitates the understanding of one of the movement's most controversial texts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-03-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:907 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Cornell University Press
ISBN:9780801431913

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Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik

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Kathi Kern is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.

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Kern's enlightening and detailed analysis of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Woman's Bible fills a void in the historiography surrounding the women's suffrage movement... Persons with a strong interest in American women's religious history will want to add this book to their personal library.(Journal of Scripture and Theology) In 1895, Elizabeth Cady Stanton shocked the nation by releasing the Women's Bible, a commentary on key biblical passages that challenged the notion of women's subordination in any sphere, particularly the church. Yet this incident has been surprisingly understudied by religion scholars and feminists... Kern's book about the Women's Bible is incisive, well written and long overdue.(Publishers Weekly) Kathi Kern's new book is more than a study of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible. It is the first serious examination of the thought of this towering figure in the history of feminist theory... Kern brings the tools of intellectual history to this complex legacy and fully appreciates the historical contradictions involved... Overall, this book is an impressive achievement.(American Historical Review) Kern demonstrates that the Woman's Bible itself played a fundamental role in the movement's new conservatism because it sparked Stanton's censure and the elimination of her fellow radicals from the national American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Stanton's Bible dramatically portrays this crucial chapter of women's history and facilitates the understanding of one of the movement's most controversial texts.(Allegheny Magazine) This tightly written and well-researched book uncovers in all their complexity the regional, national, and international dynamics of the American women's movement, as well as the diversity of beliefs that facilitated those connections but also contributed to discord.(History)