The suffrage movement's most scandalous book: Stanton annotates scripture to find the root of women's subordination.

The Woman's Bible

Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1895

In 1895, at eighty, Elizabeth Cady Stanton did the one thing the suffrage movement could not forgive: she took the argument to the Bible itself. With a Revising Committee of women she cut out every passage concerning women and published their commentaries — irreverent, learned, often funny, and openly divided among themselves — arguing that women's subordination came not from God but from men's interpretation and doctrine. The National-American Woman Suffrage Association formally repudiated it in 1896 over Susan B. Anthony's objection, a debate this edition prints in full. It remains the boldest demonstration that no authority — civil or sacred — is above a woman's questioning.

32 chapters · 135,271 words · ~10.2 hr read