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• ISBN: 0231037953
• ISBN: 9780231037952
• Physical Description: xix, 716 pages ; 21 cm
• Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1973.
• Copyright: ©1973

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-716).

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Part 1. Reason shall set us free: feminism and the enlightenment perspective. Introduction: analysis versus action ; "Remember the ladies": Abigail Adams vs. John Adams: selected letters from the Adams family correspondence ; Away from puddings and garments: Judith Sargent Murray ; On the equality of the sexes / Judith Sargent Murray ; Champion of womankind: Mary Wollstonecraft ; A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft ; Woman of action: Frances Wright ; Education / Frances Wright ; Of free enquiry / Frances Wright ; The first woman sociologist: Harriet Martineau ; Society in America / Harriet Martineau ; The making of a cosmopolitan humanist: Margaret Fuller ; The great lawsuit. Man versus men. Woman versus women / Margaret Fuller ; Prestige from the other sex: John Stuart Mill ; The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill -- Part 2. Pioneers on a moral crusade: feminism and status politics. Introduction: social roots of the woman's movement in America ; From abolition to sex equality: Sarah Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1979) ; Appeal to the Christian women of the South / Angelina Grimké ; Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of women / Sarah Grimké ; Letters to Catherine Beecher / Angelina Grimké ; The Blackwell clan: Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell: medicine as a profession for women ; Sex and evolution / Antoinette Brown Blackwell ; A feminist friendship: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) ; Motherhood / Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Introduction to The woman's bible / Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Along the suffrage trail ; Selections from the History of woman's suffrage ; Seneca Falls convention ; Reminiscences of Emily Collins ; The Akron Convention ; The Newport Convention ; The Kansas Campaign of 1867 ; Political equality for women -- Part 3. Bread comes first. Introduction: feminism and class politics ; Marriage and property: Friedrich Engels ; The origin of the family / Friedrich Engels ; Working-class socialist: August Bebel ; Woman and socialism / August Bebel ; Red Emma on women: Emma Goldman ; The tragedy of woman's emancipation / Emma Goldman ; The right to one's body: Margaret Sanger ; My fight for birth control / Margaret Sanger ; Birth control ; a parent's problem or woman's? / Margaret Sanger ; Beware the state: Suzanne LaFollette ; Concerning women / Suzanne LaFollette ; The "militant madonna": Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; Women and economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; Pioneer on the urban frontier: Jane Addams ; Utilitization of women in city government / Jane Addams -- Part 4. Sex is a many-sided thing. Introduction: feminism and intellectual complexity ; Guineas and locks: Virginia Woolf ; A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf ; Cultural Stretch: Margaret Mead ; Sex and temperament / Margaret Mead ; A not-so rebellious "other": Simone de Beauvoir ; The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir.

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