Lori Ginzberg is Professor of History and Women, Gender and Sexual Studies at Penn State University. Professor Ginzberg is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of the Suffrage movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.
Show Notes:Below are the topics covered in this conversation (with time stamps).
National Parks Service Suffrage Centennial WEBSITE [2:50]
Context from which demand for women's rights emerged [5:15]
Founding myths of the Suffrage Movement [8:00]
Confronting brutal facts of commemoration as a feminist killjoy [10:30]
Caty Stanton's disastrous, degrading racism [16:00]
Stanton's hostility to the clergy manifest in the Women's Bible [22:15]
The real question: what is the commemoration, really? [28:10]
What would Caty Stanton think of Universal Health Care? [29:24]
Suffrage today: contemporary efforts to suppress the vote [34:47]
First steps down the path of advocating women's rights? [40:40]
Further Reading:
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha Jones
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement by Cathleen D. Cahill
Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell by Alison Parker
It's All About Love by Bell Hooks
The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault
MBC-016-BARTLEBY by MELVILLE
MBC-012-THE ODYSSEY by Homer
MBC-011-INFERNO by Dante
MBC-010 PARADISE LOST by Milton
MBC-009 ILIAD by Homer
MBC-008 SONG OF MYSELF by Whitman
MBC-007 SPECIMEN DAYS by Whitman
MBC-006 DEMOCRATIC VISTAS-Whitman
MBC-005-WALKING by Thoreau
MBC-004 THE ENCHIRIDION by Epictetus
MBC-003 THE DECAMERON by Boccaccio
MBC-002-THE PROPHET by Gibran
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