ISBN:
9780804152464
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42/09
Keywords:
Feminism--History--Sources..
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Women's rights--History--Sources
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This essential volume brings together more than forty of the most important historical writings on feminism, covering 150 years of the struggle for women's freedom. Spanning the American Revolution to the first decades of the twentieth century, these works-many long out of print or forgotten-are finally brought out of obscurity and into the light of contemporary analysis and criticism. This richly diverse collection contains excerpts from books, essays, speeches, documents, and letters, as well as poetry, drama, and fiction by major feminist writers, including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Sand, Mary Wollstonecraft, Abigail Adams, Emma Goldman, Friedrich Engels, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, John Stuart Mill, Margaret Sanger, Virginia Woolf, and many others. The pieces in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings cover the crucial challenges faced by women, including marriage as an instrument of oppression; a woman's desire to control her own body; the economic independence of women; and the search for selfhood, and extensive commentaries by the editor help the reader see the historical context of each selection.
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Note to the 1994 Edition -- Introduction -- I - Eighteenth-Century Rebels -- Abigail Adams -- Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife, Abigail Adams, During the Revolution -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- II - Women Alone -- Frances Wright -- Course of Popular Lectures -- George Sand -- Indiana -- Letters of George Sand -- The Intimate Journal of George Sand -- Sarah M. Grimké -- Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman -- Harriet H. Robinson -- Early Factory Labor in New England -- Thomas Hood -- Song of the Shirt -- Margaret Fuller -- Woman in the Nineteenth Century -- Married Women's Property Act, New York, 1848 -- III - An American Woman's Movement -- Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls -- Frederick Douglass -- Editorial from The North Star -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Intelligent Wickedness -- Letter from Prison of St. Lazare, Paris -- Sojourner Truth -- Ain't I a Woman? -- What Time of Night It Is -- Lucretia Mott -- Not Christianity, but Priestcraft -- Lucy Stone -- Marriage of Lucy Stone Under Protest -- Disappointment Is the Lot of Woman -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Address to the New York State Legislature, 1854 -- Address to the New York State Legislature, 1860 -- Married Women's Property Act, New York, 1860 -- Ernestine L. Rose -- Petitions Were Circulated -- Sojourner Truth -- Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring -- Susan B. Anthony -- The United States of America vs. Susan B. Anthony -- Woman Wants Bread, Not the Ballot! -- Victoria Woodhull & Tennessee Claflin -- Virtue: What It Is, and What It Is Not -- Which Is to Blame? -- The Elixir of Life -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Womanliness -- Solitude of Self -- IV - Men As Feminists -- John Stuart Mill -- The Subjection of Women.
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