Contents

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the multiple traditions
• Seneca Falls and beyond : attacking the cult of domesticity with equality and inalienable rights
• The 1850s : married women’s property rights, divorce, and temperance
• Gatherings of unsexed women : separate spheres and women’s rights
• The Civil War years : breaking down boundaries between public and private
• The postwar years : reconstruction and positivism
• The postwar years : the new departure, the alliance with labor, and the critique of marriage
• Not the word of God but the work of man : Cady Stanton’s critique of religion
• "In the long weary march, each one walks alone" : evolution and anglo-saxonism at century’s end
• Multiple feminisms and multiple traditions : Elizabeth Cady Stanton in American political thought