04076nam 22005295 450 991014920510332120230808200328.01-4798-7681-X1-4798-5389-510.18574/9781479853892(CKB)3710000000932948(MiAaPQ)EBC4500641(StDuBDS)EDZ0001718839(OCoLC)962306063(MdBmJHUP)muse53943(DE-B1597)548264(DE-B1597)9781479853892(EXLCZ)99371000000093294820200723h20162016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierElizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law /Tracy A. ThomasNew York, NY : New York University Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (237 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2016.0-8147-8304-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Introduction -- 1. “What Do You Women Want?” -- 2. “The Pivot of the Marriage Relation” -- 3. “Divorce Is Not the Foe of Marriage” -- 4. The “Incidental Relation” of Mother -- 5. Raising “Our Girls” -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni AssociationMuch has been written about women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians have written her biography, detailed her campaign for woman’s suffrage, documented her partnership with Susan B. Anthony, and compiled all of her extensive writings and papers. Stanton herself was a prolific author; her autobiography, History of Woman Suffrage, and Woman’s Bible are classics. Despite this body of work, scholars and feminists continue to find new and insightful ways to re-examine Stanton and her impact on women’s rights and history. Law scholar Tracy A. Thomas extends this discussion of Stanton’s impact on modern-day feminism by analyzing her intellectual contributions to—and personal experiences with—family law. Stanton’s work on family issues has been overshadowed by her work (especially with Susan B. Anthony) on woman’s suffrage. But throughout her fifty-year career, Stanton emphasized reform of the private sphere of the family as central to achieving women’s equality. By weaving together law, feminist theory, and history, Thomas explores Stanton’s little-examined philosophies on and proposals for women’s equality in marriage, divorce, and family, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles in the family that came to the fore in the 1960s and ’70s had nineteenth-century roots. Using feminist legal theory as a lens to interpret Stanton’s political, legal, and personal work on the family, Thomas argues that Stanton’s positions on divorce, working mothers, domestic violence, childcare, and many other topics were strikingly progressive for her time, providing significant parallels from which to gauge the social and legal policy issues confronting women in marriage and the family today.Domestic relationsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFeminist jurisprudenceUnited StatesHistory19th centuryWomen's rightsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryDomestic relationsHistoryFeminist jurisprudenceHistoryWomen's rightsHistory346.73015Thomas Tracy A., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut31264DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910149205103321Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law2617828UNINA