Book Review Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life

Ginzberg, Lori. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. We currently live in a world where a women can own property, go to college, get any job she wants, and she can even vote. Imaging a world without those rights is almost unbelievable to think of, and we have many powerful women to thank for the all of the rights women have today. I chose Elizabeth Cady Stanton for my book review because I highly agree with feministic movements, and women having equal rights as men I feel it’s so important for women to be knowledgable on this topic. I also loved being able to go back in time and learning so much about a women who helped make a monumental change. History has a tendency to refer to forget or over look women

Elizabeth’s dedication to women 's rights sometimes created a tiff in her marriage but, that was completely unknown to many, “Elizabeth kept silent while her husband was having a grand old time in the thick of things. But whatever arguments the couple engaged remained between them (89). Not only did the women 's rights cause problems in her marriage it also created problems in many other relationships. Elizabeth Cady Stanton continuously pushed boundaries like with her fashion, “That spring Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Amelia Bloomer had traded in their cumbersome attire for the “‘Bloomer costume”’ and thus made the dress reform” (80). Her family was apposed to her wearing fants they were so upset by it that some did not even want to talk to her or be around her while she wore bloomers. She didn’t mind causing an uproar or being judged and ridiculed constantly. She did what ever it took to make a stand and do what was needed to succeed. During this time period of the mid 1800s and beyond that, Elizabeth would be considered a “maverick”. Though there were many women, and a select few men who actively participated in the movement of women 's rights, most people did not stand up for what they believed in, or did not have the literary needed to express themselves, and some were even opposed to what Elizabeth and other reformers were doing. The majority of people did not help the womens rights movement, making it a out of the social norm to be a part of. Elizabeth was one of the few that spoke up for what she believed in, and never let societies view put her down or make her feel inferior to men. Being the one to stand up and create a change is a difficult thing to do, it takes confidence and aspiration that Elizabeth Cady Stanton