The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull

Underhill, Lois Beachy

ISBN 10: 0140256385 / ISBN 13: 9780140256383

Published by Penguin Group USA, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140256385
• ISBN 13: 9780140256383
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This remarkable biography captures the strength and spirit of Victoria Woodhull, the controversial feminist who rose up from poverty to become the first woman Wall Street broker, the first woman to testify before Congress (for suffrage), and, in 1872, the first woman to run for U.S. President. "An utterly fascinating, overdue tribute to an extraordinary feminst maverick."--Booklist. of photos.

From Booklist

Gloria Steinem introduces this groundbreaking biography of a truly remarkable and long-neglected feminist pioneer. Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to address Congress regarding the suffrage issue, the first to publish her own weekly newspaper, the first to establish and operate her own Wall Street brokerage firm, and, in 1872, the first to be a presidential candidate. Yet, despite these astoundingly impressive accomplishments and the fact that she played a pivotal role in the inauguration of the National Woman Suffrage Association, she was virtually excluded from the landmark history of the suffrage movement written by feminist stalwarts Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. According to the author, Woodhull's scandal-plagued lifestyle proved to be too controversial for most conventional suffrage supporters, and her adherence to the avant-garde doctrine of spiritualism and her vocal championship of free love and sexual emancipation eventually resulted in her banishment from the fold. As part of her relentless and zealous effort to debunk the sexual double standard that existed for men and women in Victorian society, she publicly exposed the multiple marital infidelities of renowned clergyman Henry Ward Beecher. Woodhull's denunciation of Beecher's hypocrisy culminated in her arrest, imprisonment, and self-imposed exile in Europe. An utterly fascinating, overdue tribute to an extraordinary feminist maverick as well as a significant contribution to the history of feminism and the suffrage movement. Margaret Flanagan