Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the best known and most conspicuous advocate

of womens rights in the nineteenth century. For almost fifty years she led the first
womens movement in America. She set its agenda, drafted its documents, and
articulated its ideology. Her followers grew from a scattered network of local reform
groups into a national constituency of politically active women. Newspapers called
her Americas Grand Old Woman. She was an innovative and radical thinker that
believed women had been condemned to a subordinate status by entrenched
attitudes based on Judeo- Christian tradition, patriarchal institutions, English
common law, American statutes, and social customs. She frequently compared the
position of women to that of slaves. In addition to suffrage she advocated
coeducation, girls sports, job training, equal wages, labor unions, birth control,
cooperative nurseries and kitchens, property rights for wives, child custody rights
for mothers, and reform of divorce laws. Stanton was the first person to enumerate
every major advance achieved for women in the last century. Stantons talents were
aptly suited to the role of agitator. Well educated and widely read, she had keen
intelligence, a trained mind, and an ability to argue persuasively in writing and
speaking. Elizabeth Cady Stantons life was characterized by controversy. Her
actions and attitudes provoked debate and dissension. Her politics, her prejudices,
her rhetoric, her associates, her attire, even her child raising practices alarmed
many. (Griffith pg. 14)

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