The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women's rights movement but was also the movement's principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and challenged the conventions that so severely constrained women's choices and excluded them from public life. In The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sue Davis argues that Cady Stanton's work