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The Mouse Book Club is a serialized literature podcast. Each episode explores a single work and author through a variety of different perspectives.
Mouse Books wants to bring busy people into contact with timeless ideas from the past. Our podcasts and books are bite-sized, but don’t let their size deceive you: they provide access to the most consequential moments in literary and philosophical history.
Guest:
Lori Ginzberg is Professor of History and Women, Gender and Sexual Studies at Penn State University. Professor Ginzberg is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of the Suffrage movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.
Show Notes:
Below are the topics covered in this conversation (with time stamps).
National Parks Service Suffrage Centennial WEBSITE [2:50]
Context from which demand for women's rights emerged [5:15]
Founding myths of the Suffrage Movement [8:00]
Confronting brutal facts of commemoration as a feminist killjoy [10:30]
Caty Stanton's disastrous, degrading racism [16:00]
Stanton's hostility to the clergy manifest in the Women's Bible [22:15]
The real question: what is the commemoration, really? [28:10]
What would Caty Stanton think of Universal Health Care? [29:24]
Suffrage today: contemporary efforts to suppress the vote [34:47]
First steps down the path of advocating women's rights? [40:40]
Further Reading:
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha Jones
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement by Cathleen D. Cahill
Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell by Alison Parker
It's All About Love by Bell Hooks
The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault
Mouse Book Club
The Mouse Book Club is a serialized literature podcast. Each episode explores a single work and author through a variety of different perspectives.
Mouse Books wants to bring busy people into contact with timeless ideas from the past. Our podcasts and books are bite-sized, but don’t let their size deceive you: they provide access to the most consequential moments in literary and philosophical history.