Autumn 2020 Catalogue

21 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “Advocates Of Women Suffrage Practically Are Saying, ‘You Men Are So Selfish And Unjust That You Cannot Be Trusted With The Interests Of Your Wives, Daughters, And Sisters; Therefore Give Them The Law-making Power That They May Take Care Of Themselves’” 18. BEECHER, Catharine E. Woman Suffrage and Woman’s Profession. Hartford, 1871. Octavo, original gilt-stamped purple cloth. $1000. Click for more info First edition of American educator Catharine Beecher’s argument against securing immediate women’s suffrage based on her belief that the women’s movement was an assault on the “family state” and that women had to be educated before they could handle political power, in original cloth. While her contemporaries such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were fighting for immediate women’s suffrage, American educator Catharine E. Beecher (sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe) was actively fighting against it. Beecher believed that the women’s movement—which she saw as comprising advocates of free love, free divorce, and birth control—was a threat to the sanctity of the family. Pencil owner signature. Interior generally fine, light wear and soiling to original cloth. An extremely good copy.