The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Vivian Gornick Audiobook

Written by Vivian Gornick
Read by Theresa Conkin
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

General Information
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Title: The Solitude of Self
Subtitle: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author: Vivian Gornick
Reader: Theresa Conkin
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-04-06
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Duration: 4 hrs 30 mins
ISBN: 9781705296134
Subjects: Biography

File Information
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Media Format: AAC
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 263 MB
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most important leaders of the
movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick
argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also
the greatest feminist thinker of the nineteenth century. Endowed with
a philosophical cast of mind large enough to grasp the immensity that
women’s rights addressed, Stanton developed a devotion to equality
uniquely American in character. Her writing and life make clear why
feminism as a liberation movement has flourished here as nowhere else
in the world.

Born in 1815 into a conservative family of privilege, Stanton was
radicalized by her experience in the abolitionist movement. Attending
the first international conference on slavery in London in 1840, she
found herself amazed when the conference officials refused to seat her
because of her sex. At that moment she realized that “In the eyes of
the world I was not as I was in my own eyes, I was only a woman.” At
the same moment she saw what it meant for the American republic to
have failed to deliver on its fundamental promise of equality for all.
In her last public address, “The Solitude of Self,” she argued for
women’s political equality on the grounds that loneliness is the human
condition, and that each citizen therefore needs the tools to fight
alone for his or her interests.