“But there is a spiritual poverty that accompanies affluence in America. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.This exploitation amounts to what Desmond calls spiritual poverty: “There is a poverty that’s about material scarcity,” he says. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher. Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)Īn ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.” Desmond is also the author of the award-winning book On the Fireline, the coauthor of two books on race, and the editor of a collection of studies on severe deprivation in America.įor more about Matthew Desmond and Evicted. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography.ĭesmond is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award.

in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. Matthew Desmond is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. 2018 Stowe Prize Winner, Matthew Desmond for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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