It is also on the “Women’s, Queer, and Gender Studies” shelf. Copies can be put on hold now, and if paid on Aug 2 the 20% discount will apply. Anyone can purchase a copy by calling the store at 617-661-1515 and they will ship anywhere in the USA.

At the HBS event on August 2, 2016, just one week after Hillary Clinton was officially nominated for President, Safronoff will speak about Victoria Woodhull’s 1872 run for President, Mary Baker Eddy’s take on of woman’s right to hold the highest office of the land, and how American pundits responded two these two women making waves and making headlines in America — as well as an American marriage debate in the 1870s during the early women’s rights movement.

Safronoff will also answer questions and be available afterwards to meet people and sign books.   

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It is widely known that Susan B. Anthony was arrested for trying to vote in the 1872 election. Less known is that Anthony and many other women went to polling places that year following the leadership of Victoria Woodhull, who promoted an activist legal interpretation that no law prevented women from voting. Woodhull had made a similar attempt to vote the year before. But Woodhull herself was not able to join Anthony and the others for the 1872 activist stunt, because Woodhull had already been arrested and jailed for her efforts to emancipate women from marriage–promoting what she called “social freedom” but others called “free love”–through an attack on the reputation of America’s most respected Christian leader.   

Learn more about the tumult within the early woman’s rights movement over “the marriage question” in the forthcoming book Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff.  Pre-order copies on Kickstarter, now through December 4, 2014.    

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