Introduces a special issue of 'Canadian Review of American Studies' on Woman Suffrage in the United States, celebrating the 85th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Susan B. Anthony is largely regarded as the mother of American women's suffrage, a myth that ignores the efforts of the constitutional amendment's author, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton, like other lesser-known and largely forgotten proponents from all walks of life, used a variety of tactics in the campaign. The passage of the amendment was precipitated by the Seneca Falls Women's Rights convention in 1848 and the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870. The suffrage movement was part of a larger struggle to extend voting rights to all disenfranchised Americans and thus was part of a struggle for human rights. [S]
