I thought it would be a bit glossed over as it wasn't that long of a book, but I think they got the right balance of facts, and the human side of the story. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Not for Ourselves Alon‪e‬ Connie Smith. English. Two women. Beyond memorizing their names for a high school history test, I knew nothing of Stanton and Anthony's synergistic story. Pages PUBLISHER. There were not many beautiful romances: most of these women were terrified in life to ever say a word in contrast to their husbands 'authority'. It won a Peabody Award in 1999. While familiar in theory with the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony, this wonderful book brought a whole new dimension to the struggle for women's rights in 19th century America. Not harmful?? A fascinating education on the history of the women's suffrage movement. ". Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2011. Talk:Not for Ourselves Alone. Spring is Mother Nature’s way of saying, “Oof–let’s try this again.” The last 12 months have been, well, challenging is the polite term.... Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. They helped get slavery abolished, with the possibility/promise that women's suffrage would be next. The book seems to be pretty much the same material. Like the documentary this book hits all the important points but includes enough detail to add interest to them and make them more compelling. One allegiance. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include cdrom or access codes. Way too much information, with too many tangents. I had heard of her and Elizabeth Cady Stanton prior to seeing Ken Burn's excellent documentary of this same name, but I didn't know much about either of them as individuals or about their working partnership. 2017. A point raised was that while a black woman might be defended on the bases that she was black & that being cruel to a non white person is wrong/ that racism is wrong it was white women that had less rights than all slaves & far from being expensive were of less value as a product than a man's furniture. The authors trace Anthony and Stanton's very different lives--Anthony was a Quaker who remained single all her life; Stanton was born to a wealthy family and later married and raised several children--from girlhood on through their hard work, frequent disagreements on policy, and unflagging devotion to the cause of women's rights. Paperback. This dual biography of the pair by the historian Ward emphasizes the impossibility of treating either one in isolation from the other. Very informative and easy to read (plus there's a lot of great pictures!) But it has not always been this way, writes award-winning historian and biographer Ward (First Class Temperament). Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten. Sadly white men get most of the credit for fighting racism when whites fought it, yet women like Stanton & Anthony did the bulk of their work for them yet they get stigmatized as one issue activists & racists when they only tried to avoid what Douglas in fact did: yet he is praised as pro-women's rights and Anthony as a racist & Stanton as someone who called him a 'Sambo' when it was he who stabbed all women in the back denying us the right to be considered human beings and not property, spitting on our very humanity and he did this to the crushed face of the very woman who saved his life first then his right to vote & be valued as a human being citizen & not property, & he did it in hopes of keeping any rights from all women but most of all he stressed white women, since he knew black women would at least benefit some from anti-racist laws in the constitution...they were in there based on race...yet first white men , then black men, made sure white women were not because they all belittle feminist- social, human ,& civil rights justice: Douglas most of all lead the charge ( He scoffed at the notion of being in the body of a womanonly on this issue was he more than willing to be a led Stepford wife of misogynistic white men who had hoped they had conditioned him well in this injustice, in this form of hate) deep inside hated women so badly to his own silent agreement when Anthony & Truth put his conscience to the question point blank: yet it is these women, who gave up all their rights for black men to get theirs who are called mere one issue blind women who are racist & are snuffed out of history while Douglas is a god of both civil AND!! 1st. See 1 question about Not for Ourselves Alone…, Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class, Goodreads Members' Most Anticipated Spring Books. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. film scheduled for a fall showing on PBS, this volume focuses on the remarkable 50-year partnership between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. A PBS Web site. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr. Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2016. A look at the friendship of two extraordinary women, leaders of the first wave of feminism, which produced women’s suffrage. Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. May 4 LANGUAGE. Must read for anyone interested in the Women's movement. I had no idea that abolition, prohibition, and suffrage were so closely linked. This should be a must read for every household. The documentary explores the movement for women's suffrage in the United States in the 19th century, focusing on leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Alma Lutz's superb biography of Susan B. Anthony is revered for its descriptive power, attention to detail and coverage of the Suffragette movement. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten. If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. Excellent book. Ward, G.C. RELEASED . PBS favorites Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward have joined forces again to change all that, in their respectful dual biography of the great suffragettes, Not for Ourselves Alone. Assignment for book club - something on the 19th Amendment. Unable to add item to List. of course even the piled up dead butchered bodies of females are ignored each day (just as Douglas so willingly & with extreme hate,ignored them) as though this is not happening as though even the dead bodies of females are lying about the abuse, about the seriousness of misogyny and about the extent of the danger they are in The book & series reading from the book, shed light on all this, bridging the gap of yesterday's denial to that of today, from yesterday's abuse to that of the present by way of a misogynistic legacy: all this brutality & sub-humanization does not count rape, prostitution-human trafficking & beatings: even epithets on females are the number 1 promoted sell words by the same shows that would be off the air, and rightly so, in a second if they used racial or homophobic epithets on groups that contain males as members of the group who can be thus harmed by such cheered and accepted bullying, blood-soaked words of hate. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. I'll read this again someday. Brilliantly chronicled, their tireless 50-year campaign for the right to vote is set in the context of other social movements, from abolition to temperance to economic justice. Start by marking “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Even in France were blacks had rights females had none until after WW11!! Neither lived to see it accomplished. GENRE. I feel like this should be required reading for all American women to remember exactly what kind of hell past generations lived through to get us where we are today. Publisher. I loved this when I saw it aired on TV, and the book is OK. Stanton was the radical who challenged whether religion was good and attempted to re-write the bible so it was more non-sexist. The third novel in the series is Raising Caine, out in October 2015. Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Previous page. To see what your friends thought of this book, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony tells the little-known story of one of the most compelling political movements and friendships in American history.Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were born into a world ruled entirely by men and for more than half a century led the fight to win the most basic civil rights for women. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. History. Knopf. Buy a cheap copy of Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of... book by Geoffrey C. Ward. (as of the 1970s) But remember sex trafficking on females of all colors by males of all colors was not included as serious horrible slavery & isn't to this day, although that is perhaps somewhat changing. I bought this book after watching the fascinating miniseries on TV by Ken Burns..This is a wonderful companion book to the series, with very rare daguerreotypes of the time and place as well as from both women..Excepts from their diaries bring the reader to the forefront of their lives and the conflict and heartaches they experienced..Every student studying womens' issues should read this and the book should be required reading for high school students studying history.. Very intriguing story, but written poorly. Ward restores Stanton to her proper place alongside Anthony in the history of the women's movement and sensitively handles the more problematic elements of their political positions, especially in regard to their resistance to the enfranchisement of former male slaves before the vote was extended to women of any color. Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2016. This book, a companion to a documentary film by Burns and Paul Barnes, tells the story of the century-long struggle for woman suffrage. Foregoing a historian review of the lives and works of this dynamic duo, the authors presented a recap of the struggles, both public and private, through primary sources. WikiProject Film / American / Documentary (Rated Stub-class) This article ... and "and" which does not match the book cover or the video box. Please try again. A really good version of this significant chunk of women's rights history.....or should I say herstory. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. dy Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. It was especially neat to read of Elizabeth's lesser-known involvement in the cause. Gifts & Registry Health Home Home Improvement Household Essentials Jewelry Movies Music Office. This work has garnered him five Emmy Awards. This book kicked things off but is largely ignored as is the series based on the book, that told the book's story, directly from the book's words. --Sunny Delaney. The book is very easy to read, and people of all ages would enjoy it. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. women's human rights every time his name comes up ...and it comes up often. Every person alive should read this book, especially the women! If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. Instead it is a pretty fair rendering of the significant work of these two women. Geoffrey C. Ward, historian, screenwriter, and former editor of, On the evening of November 12, 1895, passersby on Thirty-ninth Street on Manhattan's West Side noticed something still thought unusual even in New York: large groups of well-dressed women hurrying along the street, unaccompanied by men. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I also watched the video tape and I have seen an audio cd of the same name. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Under laws the series & book point out in detail white men made sure that their women , as they put it, were at the very bottom of the list of those who might get rights some day: they were willing to put black men & even black women first but they stressed their women should be dead last on a long list where they had less rights than 'looneys' in snake pits that were allowed to be killed for entertainment: and even 'insane' ax murders that the state was putting to death: then all criminals and even less rights than condemned murders: This is a bold entrance into real history: white females were brought to the states as bond brides because they 'stole' palm bread in Europe instead of 'allowing' men to sex slave them for bread the size of their palms & plus brothel slavery built towns into boom towns/ booms towns into big cities built on human trafficking of females: little girls were used in death trap factories & sex abused there to build the industrial revolution: etc All through history women of all 'colors' have been slaved as 'less-than-saves' by men of all colors as the norm: in fact white females were sold in colossal numbers to African tribes that later would slave & sell other Africans to horrid white male slave ships: The more misogynistic tribes did this to the tribes that were more equal, although there were many more tribes that were good to women than not, the hyper-masculine ones traded in slaves as the norm. Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 Buy Not For Ourselves Alone - eBook at Walmart.com . The book is very easy to read, and people of all ages would enjoy it. Of course they did much to advance the cause of Women's Suffrage and never got to cast a legal vote in an election, but they voted anyway, though their votes were discounted. Exactly what advertised and arrived on time. She finds belonging under attack as never before. The inclu. And he dumped the women's cause in a misogynistic hypocritical rage that shocked Sojouner Truth: What this book and series did was to ever so slightly but powerfully open our eyes to the following: Then as now the greatest violence on human beings as property was inflicted on females including the most horrid whippings, beatings, sex assaults and of course murder: white females were deemed to be a dime a dozen: not expensive slaves & since nearly all white men got dowries when they married women & child brides, killing one wife ment getting more wealth or land and thus more power as a man: these male gold digging 'whores' (another thing censored-out of history) would beat their females so mercilessly , so unspeakable it was common for females to be deformed by it & so murderous was the constant abuse on females that all you heard was girls screaming when in a town apartment building: so many women & girls were being mutilated & were being murdered as a right of a man that at the turn of the 20th century the rule of thumb was passed: you could not beat your wife with any metal rod thicker than your thumb, believing that might curb some mutilations & some killings...how sweet: women looked like they had been attacked by a pack of lions: and you could tie your wife up & whip her to a pulp outside in your yard, on the streets: you bet women fled from their serial killer style raging husband-owners down the street but others did not bother since no one thought it was wrong of the man and no one would get in the way of his 'rights' as the owner: and you bet many a female was hung in our streets for many a misogynistic reason including as 'thieves': as famous men of God only stood there praying that they be forgiven by God for the unforgivable sin of fleeing men wanting to buy them as sex slaves,to brutalized females as sub-human 'scum', in exchange for bread the size of the woman/girl's palm: women were supposed to be treated this way if they wanted the right to breathe men's air or actually have a teeny bit of food to eat after their owner-husbands died or if they fled incesting father-owners :today 3 in 4 females are killed in domestic abuse each day in the US alone in the worst overkill & that is only 30% of all misogynistic murders on females each yr in just the USA: To this very day THIS IS STILL CENSORED-OUT in cold, brutal denial as the legacy of denial lives on, Since even great men who fought aganst race slavery so bravely violently embraced this denial, born of the most accepted hate: misogyny. Another point to emphasize: improving the plight of women will not succeed if we confine ourselves to working with women alone. More than anything I was fascinated by the passion and dedication of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in such a meaningful cause - winning to vote and many other rights for women. film scheduled for a fall showing on PBS, this volume focuses on the remarkable 50-year partnership between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. I enjoy reading any biography, but here was reminded that we should not take the rights we have today for granted. Pickup & delivery Walmart.com. This history is so important and this is a book I will probably add to my personal library. extremely informative, good non fiction read, a lot of info! The series was based on this book word for word and I recommend both together: it covered that females did not even have custody of themselves until 1920 & much less of their kids: & when Stanton asked that mothers be allowed to be able to have chance to get custody of their kids the whole church community attacked her stressing that fathers have a right to have 'some !! Instead, it was forever on the "back burner", with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton travelling around the country to gather support and spread the word. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. The inconsistencies of human nature, bad choices, tantums, petty quarrels and power struggles are all laid out for us to see. Should be required reading in all American history classes. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. Please try again. But like so many I thought Anthony came to the movement first, but no, it was Stanton. Ward and Burns, writers of the illustrated histories, A look at the friendship of two extraordinary women, leaders of the first wave of feminism, which produced women's suffrage. Both Stanton and Anthony spent years criss-crossing the country, giving speeches urging women to free themselves from male domination, Anthony pounding on the issue of suffrage, Stanton on what would later be called consciousness-raising. Great read. Recommended reading for all women. The War State: The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Powe... Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK. I finished this on the anniversary of Susan B. Anthony's birth in 1820. Gratitude is the word foremost in my mind. The text is accompanied by 150 illustrations and excerpts from speeches delivered by both women. Enjoyed the old photographs in the book too. By: Hakim J. Lucas, Virginia Union University A volume in the series: Higher Education Leadership & Study of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.Editor(s): Hakim J. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Please try again. Another thing that bothered my fellow liberals was that Stanton equated the less than slave status of wives to prostitution explaining that both were the abuse of females treated as the mere property, product of men & their power structure & although a lover of God, she took on the Bible as the greatest book, as she deemed it, of misogyny that supports the slave status & abuse of females: everyone attacked her for that courage. Great story about two magnificent women whose friendship stood not only the test of time but the winds of change they created. We need to read this book & watch the series it is based on & then so much more, like Andrea Dworkin's work & the recent work of Gloria Steinem on sex trafficking etc because even these women, students of Stanton & Anthony, are being forgotten & belittled & censored-out: just like Stanton & Anthony before them: and just as Dworkin warned. What shines most brightly throughout the volume, however, is the love and respect these women felt for one another. We need to fight to end ALL the inhumanity not just the popular truths ...but misogyny too, and need to stop denying the hell on earth around us then using the state od denial as 'proof' that misogyny is not quite so bad as the popular truths. . If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. It's time for women of all backgrounds & 'colors' & ethnicity to rise up as sisters and highlight as well the brave men who have/had our backs often like Ted Bunch/ Kevin Powell, Tom Laughlin, Nicholas Kristof, John Lennon, etc That even Douglas could not see & was in deliberate denial of the unsurpassed abuse of the most hideous kind on females in society is bone chilling: ab=nd the incestual fahters who owned their daughters if they did not sell them with dowries to husband-owners like Mr. Frick in Pittsburgh & Lizzie Borden's father, which was a chilling norm in wealthy circles, accepted by them (infact if anyone made a fuss over it, the GIRL was shunned by high society as being apart of 'scandal' which ment someone was , unlike them, upset over the incest-based on gender power: and the fact that most women of all colors were dirt poor & often beaten, all were owned etc & few wore dresses like Scarlett O'Hara...we need to face the realities of HERSTORY as sisters and as brave, courageous males. by Alfred A. Knopf, Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. It is filled with photos and a very readable account of how Stanton and Anthony spent more than 50 years working together to gain women the right to vote. Publisher Description. Political differencesAAnthony's determined single-issue focus and Cady Stanton's more holistic and radical politicsAare made tangible; readers can almost feel the heat of the pair's debates. as though the women's struggle concerns a frivolous, trivial issue and not serious violations of all basic human rights on a massive scale: she warned this would feed the trivialization of women's human rights and she was proven right in the most bone chilling way. Together they fought for women everywhere, and their strong willpower and sheer determination still ripples through contemporary society. Learn more about the program. Anthony, for one, was frequently vilified in the press, cruelly caricatured, and shouted down at lectures. We even put little preteens on chain-gangs for the 'sex crime' of adult men buying them in human trafficking: and in America we sex slave and buy these little girl children the most not the least & travel the world the most doing this to the girl children of other nations. rights to their children as the dads' when the fathers had ALL rights over the children that they owned, indeed the wife did not even have custody over herself: Stanton was stigmatized as a devil, hating the sacred cow: fathers in the family, men. Being a woman of my generation hasn't always been comfortable or easy, but had I lived a century before in their time I don't think I would have survived what Anthony and Stanton endured, particularly Anthony who traveled the country almost continuously through her life lecturing and organizing. This book looks at the life and work of America's most famous suffragette, and the fight she led for civil rights for minorities and women. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. without escorts, women unaccustomed to being out that way," a reporter for the New York Times noted, found safety in numbers: "One woman said as she entered the Opera House with her party, 'I feel just as though I belonged to a shoal of fishes.' Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. so it is no wonder the violence and abuse on females is as bad as it is to this very day: when alive all these females were blasted by society and judges for claiming the man was going to kill them one day and they were scoffed at over claims of abuse, even when most of these men already tortured and killed her pet: yet if they had killed the men they would all be alive today...all these females would be alive today...but imagine 3 to 4 men killed a day by these women claiming abuse and danger from the men..they would be ridiculed to death in a frenzy of public out cry: but the females die instead each day to the sound of content silence from the same public, the same media that panders to them, the same justice system, the same people of conscience, now imagine if females were killing other men also each yr in the USA at a rate 70% higher than that !! I am going with IMDB, Amazon, and the box, not with PBS or the book cover. Sadly, Anthony is best remembered as "the woman on that funny dollar" and Stanton has been largely forgotten. Marginally more familiar was that of Susan B. Anthony, Stanton's comrade-in-arms in the struggle for women's suffrage.