Frasi di Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton è stata un'attivista statunitense, impegnata come abolizionista e figura guida dei primi movimenti femministi per l'emancipazione della donna e per l'affermazione dei suoi diritti. Fu inoltre vegetariana e favorevole alla difesa degli animali.

La sua Dichiarazione dei sentimenti , ispirata per solennità di forma alla Dichiarazione di indipendenza americana, fu presentata alla Convenzione di Seneca Falls del 1848, la prima degli Stati Uniti, tenutasi nell'omonimo villaggio nei pressi di New York. Quel documento è spesso ritenuto come l'atto fondativo del primo movimento suffragista e di emancipazione femminile degli Stati Uniti.

Tra il 1895 e il 1898 con un comitato di altre 26 donne scrisse "La Bibbia della donna", un saggio di esegesi biblica dal punto di vista femminile, che divenne ben presto un bestsellers.

✵ 12. Novembre 1815 – 26. Ottobre 1902
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“La missione del Movimento radicale contro la schiavitù non comprende solo gli schiavi africani, ma anche gli schiavi del costume, del credo e del sesso.”

Origine: In AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019. ISBN 9788858022900

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Frasi in inglese

“Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”

Letter to Susan B. Anthony (1860-06-14).
Contesto: Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishement of an absolute tyrrany over her”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments

Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1848).
Contesto: The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishement of an absolute tyrrany over her... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective to the franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of wich she has no voice...
Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, her has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.

“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.”

Address to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860; as published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments

First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, [July, 19-20, 1848]. Declaration of Sentiments.

“I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.”

1896
September
The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible
Free Thought Magazine
Chicago
14
540
http://books.google.com/books?id=TfOfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA540&dq=%22I+have+endeavored+to+dissipate%22

“[W]hile the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.”

As quoted in Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction https://books.google.com/books?id=Tpb7HAIhWHgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=9780199843282&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjz1ILxqfLcAhVDnuAKHda9Ai0Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=9780199843282&f=false (2012), by Allen C. Guelzo, Chapter One

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