Judith Wellman Classroom Issues and Strategies Stanton's autobiography reads well, in a fresh, personal, and modern style.
Students do, however, benefit from some introduction to the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments.
It is also divided into three main parts, as is the Declaration of Independence. Instead of grievances against King George, however, the Declaration of Sentiments lists grievances of women against the patriarchal establishment. Supposedly, the women tried to use the same number of items in 1848 as the Second Continental Congress incorporated in 1776, but the 1848 document actually contains one or two fewer. Asking students to list them or to compare them with the issues raised at the 1977 Houston convention, ending the International Women's Year, works well. Professors might ask students to imagine they were present at the Seneca Falls convention.