Elizabeth Cady Stanton Views Of Sexism

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was am important element of the Woman’s Rights Movements. Elizabeth Stanton was born in 1815 to Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady. What really made Elizabeth become a catalyst of the Woman’s Rights Movement was when her sister and her were born. Her parents reaction to her and her sister’s birth was a greatly disappointment to the both of them because they preferred boys then girls. One thing Stanton wanted to do while growing up was to please her parents. She tried to do so by being as much like her brothers as possible. She learned how to ride a horse. She attended Johnstown Academy and studied Greek and Mathematics. She became a very good debater.

After graduating from the Seminary, she observed her father, who was a lawyer, as he handled cases. While observing him she saw how biased he was to males and how unfairly he was to females. If a woman wanted a divorce, her father would not take the case, even if the woman had the money and her husband was abusive. But if the husband of the man came in and wanted a divorce then obstructed Stanton father would try to get all the woman’s money. While observing. She met Henry Stanton, who she later married. He was an anti-slavery protester and spokesman.

Elizabeth Stanton became the catalyst of the Women’s Right Movement. However, she had some very strange biblical views. She believed that the Bible was partial to men. One view about the bible was that the bible and the church had been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. For example, God created Adam and Eve. Eve was made from the rib of Adam which meant a woman was made from man. (1 Corinthians 11:9) For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Later on she wrote a book called The Women’s Bible which talked about sexism in the bible. In the Women’s bible it talked about how she declared