Sex in the Gilded Age

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

New York social activist and women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton is credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the US. She presented the Declaration of Sentiments at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848. Not only did Elizabeth fight for women's right to vote, but she was also an advocate for women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce, and birth control.