Book Talk & Signing with Coffee & Chocolate Reception, Thursday, February 9th in Room 160, 12:30-1:30
The Center for Constitutional Law is pleased to announce new research from its Director, Professor Tracy Thomas. Thomas’ new book uncovers the early historical origins of political action and legal reform for gender equality in the family. It provides an intellectual history of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s fifty years as America’s leading feminist and focuses on her legacy to the law. Thomas explores Stanton’s little-examined philosophies on women’s equality in marriage, divorce, and maternity, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles of the 1970s had nineteenth-century roots. Stanton’s radical ideas seem so familiar today only because they have all become law.