Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Sociology

The four women I choose for this assignment are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone,

Margaret Mead, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815

(http://www.u-s-history.com). She attended Emma Willard’s academy in Troy, New York and

was given special admission Johnston academy which was normally only open to boys

(http://www.u-s-history.com). Elizabeth studied law with her father Judge Daniel Cady. She was

married to Henry Brewster Stanton. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the mother to seven children.

She died on October 26, 1902 in New York.

Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts on August 13, 1818 to farmers

Francis Stone and Hannah Matthews (http://www.anb.org). Lucy was an abolitionist and

women’s rights activist. She attended Mount Holyoke Seminar in 1839 but returned home to care

for her sick sister. In 1843 she attended Oberlin Collegiate Institution and graduated in 1847. She

was the first women in Massachusetts to receive a bachelor’s degree. In 1855 she married Henry

B Blackwell a hardware merchant. Lucy had her only child in 1857, Alice Stone Blackwell.

Margaret Mead was born on December 16, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(http://www.u-s- history.com). In 1919 she attended DePauw University and a year later she

transferred to Barnard College in New York. She graduated from Barnard College in 1923 and

entered Columbia University. Mead was married three times, first to a minister, Luther

Cressman, in 1923; they divorced in 1926. Her second marriage was to fellow anthropologist

Reo Fortune in 1928; they divorced in 1934. She then married Gregory Bateson in 1936, also an

anthropologist (http://www.u-s-history.com). Margaret Mead only had one child a daughter,

Mary Catherine Bateson. Margaret Mead died on November 15, 1978, in New York at the age of

76 (http://www.u-s-history.com).

Ruth Bader...