Fighting for Women's Suffrage: The Lives and Legacies of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Lu Anne Martucci

Length: 1 hr and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

Together, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the most important partnership in the history of women's rights in America. The women worked seamlessly, with Stanton providing the forceful ideology and Anthony providing the tireless advocacy. Stanton would later characterize their relationship, "It is often said, by those who know Miss Anthony best, that she has been my good angel, always pushing and goading me to work, and that but for her pertinacity I should never have accomplished the little I have. On the other hand it has been said that I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them. Perhaps all this is, in a measure, true."

Despite their partnership, the two women are often remembered quite differently. Stanton is something of an unsung hero in the history of the feminist movement. Though she is still primarily known as an advocate of women's suffrage and is closely linked to the better known Susan B. Anthony, Stanton was shunned by many of her fellow suffragists because her ideas seem too radical and because many were disturbed by her barely Deist view of religion. Over a century after her death, modern feminists tend to overlook Stanton in favor of Anthony, while remembering that Stanton enjoyed taking on the traditional 19th century gender roles of being the mother of a large family and remaining devoted to her husband throughout her life. And while Anthony's comments about abortion are still fiercely debated by pro-life and pro-choice crowds, Stanton held conservative views toward abortion. It's clear that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was very much her own woman, certainly a fitting description that she would not have wanted any other way.

Fighting for Women's Suffrage chronicles the lives and partnership of the two women, examining their ideologies, advocacy, and writings.

©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors

Narrator's voice is very distracting.

Great content but the narrator used strange cartoonish voices when ready quotes. It was very distracting and took away from the power and authority of these amazing women.

thin on details, distracting performance

i am accustomed to interesting details along with familiar historical narrative, however, this book quickly skips through the historical narrative. the narrator tries REALLY hard to do voices, but ends up just distracting. her inflection during the book almost seems random. overall, a poor job of describing two great people in American history.