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The Feminist Papers : : From Adams to de Beauvoir

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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, 1973.
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 (1751-1820) -- On the equality of the sexes / Judith Sargent Murray -- Champion of womankind: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) -- A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Woman of Action: Frances Wright (1795-1852) -- Education ; Of free enquiry / Frances Wright -- The first woman sociologist: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) -- Society in America / Harriet Martineau -- The making of a cosmopolitan humanist: Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) -- The great lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus women / Margaret fuller -- Prestige from the other sex: John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) -- The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill.
Introduction: social roots of the woman's movement in America -- From abolition to sex equity: Sarah Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879) -- Appeal to the Christian woman 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 -- Medicine as a profession for women / Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell -- 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 Suffrage -- Seneca Falls convention -- Reminiscences of Emily Collins -- The Akron Convention -- The Newport convention -- The Kansas Campaign of 1867 -- Political equality for women.
Introduction: feminism and class politics -- Marriage and property: Friedrich Engles (1820-1895) -- The origin of the family / Friedrich Engels -- Working-class socialist: August Bebel (1840-1913) -- Woman and socialism / August Bebel -- Red Emma on women: Emma Goldman (1869-1940) -- The tragedy of woman's emancipation / Emma Goldman -- the right to one's body: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) -- My fight for birth control : Birth Control- a parent's problem or woman's? / Margaret Sanger -- Beware the State: Suzanne LaFollette (b. 1893) -- Concerning Women / Suzanne LaFollette -- The "Militant Madonna": Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- Women and Econommics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Pioneer on the urban frontier: Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- Utilization of women in city Government / Jane Addams -- Introduction: Feminism and intellectual complexity.
Guineas and locks: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- Cultural stretch: Margaret Mead (b.1901) -- Sex and temperament / Margaret Mead -- A not-so rebellious "other": Simone de Beauvoir (b. 1908) -- The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir.

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PUBLISHED
Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1988.
Year Published: 1988
Description: 716 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1555530281
9781555530280

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Rossi, Alice S., 1922-2009.

SUBJECTS
Women -- Sources. -- Modern period, 1600-
Women's rights -- Sources.
Feminism -- Sources.