A new biography of the feminist pioneer, written by Ellen Carol DuBois, explores Stanton’s legacy.

In Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life, historian Ellen Carol DuBois presents a definitive portrait of one of the most influential figures in the American struggles for women’s suffrage and rights. From the 1840s until her death in 1902, Stanton fought for women’s emancipation, advocating on issues that went far beyond the vote. Drawing on archival research and Stanton’s writings, DuBois traces her advocacy for reproductive rights, marriage reform, and challenges to religious hierarchies, while also examining Stanton’s conflicts with Black reformers and her support of nativist ideas—highlighting the contradictions that continue to complicate her legacy.

DuBois, in conversation with legal scholar Julie Suk, discusses the reformer whose words still provoke—and whose struggles helped shape contemporary feminism. Click here to RSVP: https://www.showclix.com/tickets/ellen-carol-dubois/tag/guest

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Ellen Carol DuBois is distinguished professor of history at UCLA. Her pioneering works on the U.S. woman suffrage movement include Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage; and Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. She lives in Los Angeles.

Julie Chi-hye Suk is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on the processes of constitutional amendment and reform, feminist constitutional movements, and the law, policy, and institutions that shape equality and democracy in the United States and globally. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles in law reviews and edited volumes, Suk is the author of three books, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (2020); After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It (2023); and The Shadow Court: Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court (forthcoming, Fall 2026).