Guide to a d V i s o ry e d I t o r s

Revolution
, a journal focusing on women’s rights,
improved working conditions and equal marriage
laws, and whose motto was ‘Men, their rights, and
nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less’.
In 1869, she and Stanton founded the National Woman
Suffrage Association. In 1872, Anthony was arrested for
trying to vote. While awaiting her trial, she toured
central New York arguing that the Fifteenth
Amendment granted women the right to vote because
it guaranteed the rights of ‘citizens’. ‘We appeal to
women everywhere’, she said, ‘to exercise their too
long neglected “citizen’s right to vote”.’ From 1881 to
1886, she and Stanton, together with Matilda Joslyn
Cage, wrote the first three volumes of
History of Woman
Suffrage.
She was president of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900, but
did not live to see women granted the vote.
SP
Antin, Mary (Grabau)
1881—1949 Antin’s 
The
Promised Land
(1912) is the most widely read account by
a woman of the American immigrant experience. Born
in the 
shtetl
of Plotzk in Russian Poland, Antin accom-
panied her parents when they emigrated to Boston in
1884. She attended Girls’ Latin School, and Columbia
University, marrying a professor there. Her first book,
From Plotzk to Boston
(1899), a description of family life
in the Jewish Pale and of immigration, was written in
Yiddish when Antin was 11. She was welcomed in
Brahmin Boston as a child prodigy, ‘a queer, thin little
thing, . . . overdressed for the occasion and with dread-
fully frizzed hair’. Antin’s is one of the very few
accounts of immigration actually written by a child.
Her principal work,
The Promised Land
, first serialized
in the 
Atlantic Monthly
, retold her family’s story, in
greater detail, and celebrated America as offering
salvation to her people. It was followed in 1914 by 
They
Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration
.
After several years as a popular lecturer and advocate of
patriotism and assimilation during World War I, she
suffered a nervous breakdown, withdrew from the
lecture circuit, and did not write again.
EH
Anzaldúa, Gloria
1942— Self-styled ‘Latina-Chicana
dyke feminist writer’, Anzaldua is an important feminist
theorist of the late 20th century.
This Bridge Called My Back:
Radical Writings by Women of Color
(1981), co-edited with
C h e r r i e
M o r a g a
, received the Before Columbus
Foundation’s American Book Award and consolidated
the importance of women of colour in the feminist move-
ment. The anthology was followed by
Borderlands
/
La
Frontera
(1987), an equally influential text that blends
history and folklore, personal reflection and essay, prose
and poetry, and several different languages and dialects
in an effort to negotiate the ‘borderlands’ that define,
trouble, and finally empower identity. In 1990, Anzaldua
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edited
Making Face, Making Soul / Haciendo Caras: Creative
and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color
. In the tradition of
This Bridge Called My Back
, this second anthology brings
together women from a wide variety of backgrounds in
the common project of rejecting culturally prescribed
masks and establishing new voices. More recently,
Anzaldua has come to focus more specifically on issues of
sexuality, receiving the Sappho Award of Distinction in
1992 and editing an issue of