Public Women, Public Words A Documentary History of American Feminism

by Keetley, Dawn; Pettegrew, John

• ISBN13: 9780945612445
• ISBN10: 0945612443
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This final volume in the Public Women, Public Words series focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s; reflects the unprecedented range of women's issues taken up by feminists during the 1970s and beyond; and looks toward a third feminist wave for the new millennium.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Splitting Differences: Conceiving of American Feminism	xi
PART ONE Identities Through Adversity: Women in Colonial North America	1	(34)
[1] "The Examination of Anne Hutchinson" (1637)	9	(7)
MARGARET BRENT
[2] "Petition to the Maryland Assembly Requesting the Right to Vote" (1648)	16	(1)
MARY DYER
[3] "Letter to the Massachusetts General Court Protesting the Persecution of Quakers" (1659)	16	(2)
[4] "The Examinations of Susannah Martin and Martha Carrier for the Crime of Witchcraft" (1692)	18	(2)
ANNE BRADSTREET
[5] Poems	20	(1)
"The Prologue" (1650)	20	(1)
"The Author to Her Book" (1678)	20	(1)
MARY ROWLANDSON
[6] "Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes" (1682)	21	(5)
PHILLIS WHEATLEY
[7] Poems	26	(1)
"On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1773)	26	(1)
"The Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." (1773)	26	(1)
ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE
[8] "Uncommon Occurrences" (1774)	27	(8)
PART TWO Of Education and Virtue: Women's Thought in the Revolutionary and Early National Periods	35	(54)
I. Revolutionizing the Family and Relations Between the Sexes	37	(21)
ESTHER DEBERDT REED
[9] "Sentiments of an American Woman" (1780)	41	(1)
BELINDA
[10] "Petition of an African Slave" (1782)	42	(1)
KATTEUHA
[11] "Letter to President Benjamin Franklin" (1787)	43	(1)
HANNAH ADAMS
[12] "Women Invited to War" (1787)	44	(2)
[13] "The Humble Address of Ten Thousand Federal Maids" (1791)	46	(1)
[14] "On the Supposed Superiority of the Masculine Understanding" (1791)	47	(2)
[15] "On Matrimonial Obedience" (1792)	49	(2)
[16] "Lines, Written by a Lady, Who Was Questioned Respecting Her Inclination to Marry" (1794)	51	(1)
[17] "A Second Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1801)	51	(1)
[18] "The Criterion of Virtue" (1802)	52	(2)
HANNAH MATHER CROCKER
[19] "On the Real Rights of Women with Their Appropriate Duties" (1818)	54	(4)
II. Education and Women's Literary Culture	58	(31)
JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY
[20] "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790)	62	(4)
ANN LOXLEY
ELIZA SHRUPP
MOLLY WALLACE
PRISCILLA MASON
[21] "Orations Delivered to the Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia" (1793)	66	(4)
SUSANNA ROWSON
[22] "The Death of Charlotte Temple" (1794)	70	(2)
HANNAH WEBSTER FOSTER
[23] "The Coquette" (1797)	72	(6)
[24] "The Female Advocate" (1801)	78	(4)
MERCY OTIS WARREN
[25] "On Writing a Political History of the American Revolution" (1805)	82	(2)
EMMA WILLARD
[26] "An Address to the Public, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education" (1819)	84	(5)
PART THREE Early Rights Consciousness in Antebellum America	89	(142)
I. Contesting Woman's Nature and Woman's Sphere	91	(29)
JARENA LEE
[27] "My Call to Preach the Gospel" (1836)	95	(2)
SARAH GRIMKE
[28] "The Equality of the Sexes" (1838)	97	(5)
CATHARINE BEECHER
[29] "The Importance of Domestic Economy" (1842)	102	(4)
ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH
[30] "A Woman-Thought, a Woman-Perception, a Woman-Intuition" (1851)	106	(4)
[31] "Resolution on `Woman's Sphere,' at the Second Woman's Rights Convention" (1851)	110	(1)
LUCY STONE
[32] "Leave Women, Then, to Find Their Sphere" (1855)	110	(2)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
[33] "Are the Sexes Different?" (1855)	112	(1)
M. FARLEY EMERSON
[34] "Woman's Sphere, Woman's Nature" (1857)	113	(2)
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS (HARPER)
[35] "The Two Offers" (1859)	115	(5)
II. Women's Reform Movements	120	(27)
FRANCES WRIGHT
[36] "The Nashoba Experiment," (1828)	124	(3)
THE NEW YORK FEMALE MORAL REFORM SOCIETY
[37] "An Appeal to the Wives, Mothers, and Daughters of Our Land" (1836)	127	(3)
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
[38] "Amelia Norman's Innocence" (1844)	130	(1)
MARGARET FULLER
[39] "Who Is Guilty in the Case of Amelia Norman?" (1850)	131	(1)
EMMA C. EMBURY
[40] "The Ruined Family" (1839)	132	(4)
LUCY STONE
[41] "Woman and Temperance" (1853)	136	(2)
HARRIET FARLEY
[42] "The Aim of the Offering" (1845)	138	(2)
SARAH G. BAGLEY
[43] "Speech on Behalf of the Female Labor Reform Association of Lowell" (1845)	140	(1)
JANE SOPHIA APPLETON
[44] "Sequel to the `Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century'" (1848)	141	(2)
LYDIA HASBROUCK
[45] "Traitors to the Cause of Dress Reform" (1857)	143	(2)
[46] "Short Hair and Short Dresses" (1857)	145	(1)
LUCY STONE
[47] "Dress a Consequence of Woman's Vassalage--Not Its Cause" (1857)	146	(1)
III. The Anti-Slavery Movement	147	(35)
MARIA W. STEWART
[48] "Why Sit Ye Here and Die?" (1832)	151	(2)
ANGELINA GRIMKE
[49] "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" (1836)	153	(2)
CATHARINE BEECHER
[50] "An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism" (1837)	155	(3)
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
[51] "The Quadroons" (1849)	158	(5)
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
[52] "A Senator Is But a Man" (1852)	163	(5)
LOUISA J. HALL
[53] "Birth in the Slave's Hut" (1849)	168	(1)
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS (HARPER)
[54] Poems	168	(2)
"The Slave Mother" (1854)	168	(1)
"Eliza Harris" (1854)	169	(1)
ELIZABETH C. WRIGHT
MRS. WILLIAMS
LUCRETIA MOTT
[55] "Women Speak Out at an Anti-Slavery Meeting in Philadelphia" (1853)	170	(3)
HARRIET JACOBS
[56] "A Perilous Passage in a Slave Girl's Life" (1861)	173	(3)
HARRIET TUBMAN
[57] "The Underground Railroad" (1863)	176	(1)
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
ERNESTINE ROSE
MRS. HOYT
SARAH H. HALLECK
ANGELINE G. WELD
LUCY STONE
[58] "Loyal Women of the Nation Debate Their Role in a Time of War" (1863)	176	(6)
IV. Contesting Women's Rights	182	(49)
MARGARET FULLER
[59] "The Great Lawsuit" (1843)	187	(3)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
LUCRETIA MOTT
MARTHA C. WRIGHT
MARY ANN McCLINTOCK
JANE C. HUNT
[60] "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (1848)	190	(3)
LUCRETIA MOTT
[61] "Discourse on Woman" (1849)	193	(4)
PAULINA W. DAVIS
[62] "Justice for Women" (1850)	197	(2)
HADDIE LANE
[63] "Woman's Rights" (1850)	199	(2)
FRANCES D. GAGE
[64] "Woman's Natural Rights" (1851)	201	(2)
SOJOURNER TRUTH
[65] "A'n't I a Woman?" (1851)	203	(1)
[66] "Resolving to Reform Marriage Laws at the Woman's Rights Convention in Rochester" (1853)	204	(1)
LUCY STONE
HENRY B. BLACKWELL
[67] "The Marriage of Lucy Stone under Protest" (1855)	205	(1)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
[68] "Address to the New York Legislature" (1854)	206	(6)
MARY S. GOVE (NICHOLS)
[69] "Woman, an Individual" (1854)	212	(4)
[70] "Rights for All Women of Whatsoever Color" (1854)	216	(2)
ANNE E. McDOWELL
[71] "Woman's Rights and Slavery" (1856)	218	(1)
[72] "Resolutions of the Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention in New York" (1856)	219	(1)
CAROLINE H. DALL
[73] "Woman's Right to Labor" (1859)	220	(3)
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL
ERNESTINE ROSE
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
[74] "Debating Marriage and Divorce Laws" (1860)	223	(4)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
LYDIA MOTT
ERNESTINE ROSE
MARTHA C. WRIGHT
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
[75] "Appeal to the Women of New York" (1860)	227	(4)
PART FOUR The Post-Civil War Struggle for Political and Social Equality	231	(140)
I. Suffrage and Other Essential Rights	233	(43)
SOJOURNER TRUTH
[76] "Colored Men Will Be Masters Over the Women" (1867)	237	(1)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
[77] "Suffrage for All, White and Black, Male and Female" (1868)	238	(1)
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
[78] "Letter to the Colored Men's State Convention in Utica, New York" (1868)	239	(1)
[79] "A Colored Woman's Voice" (1869)	240	(1)
PAULINA DAVIS
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
FRANCES HARPER
[80] "Debate on the Fifteenth Amendment" (1869)	240	(1)
[81] "Petitions for a Sixteenth Amendment" (1876)	241	(3)
[82] "United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony" (1873)	244	(1)
VICTORIA WOODHULL
[83] "Declaration of Candidacy for the Presidency of the United States" (1870)	245	(1)
VICTORIA WOODHULL
[84] "Letter Accepting the Presidential Nomination of the Equal Rights Party" (1872)	246	(2)
VICTORIA WOODHULL
[85] "Constitutional Equality" (1871)	248	(2)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
[86] "Infanticide and Prostitution" (1868)	250	(1)
[87] "Child Murder" (1868)	251	(1)
MATILDA E. J. GAGE
[88] "Is Woman Her Own?" (1868)	252	(1)
[89] "Political Organization" (1870)	253	(1)
LAURA CURTIS BULLARD
[90] "What Flag Shall We Fly?" (1870)	254	(2)
LULA GREENE RICHARDS
EMMELINE B. WELLS
[91] "Women's Rights and Polygamy" (1876)	256	(1)
FANNIE McCORMICK
[92] "A Kansas Farm" (1891)	257	(1)
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
[93] "The Physical Force Argument and the Vote" (1895)	258	(2)
SARA T. DRUKKER
[94] "Voting Mothers" (1897)	260	(1)
JULIA WARD HOWE
[95] "The Moral Initiative as Belonging to Women" (1893)	260	(2)
FRANCES E. W. HARPER
[96] "Woman's Political Future" (1893)	262	(2)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
[97] "An Educational Suffrage Qualification Necessary" (1897)	264	(1)
ELIZABETH BURRILL CURTIS
[98] "The Present Crisis" (1897)	264	(2)
HARRIET STANTON BLATCH
[99] "Educated Suffrage a Fetich [sic]" (1897)	266	(2)
D. ANNA GARDNER
[100] "Educated Suffrage a Step Backward" (1897)	268	(1)
M. PUTNAM-JACOBI
[101] "`Common Sense' Applied to Woman Suffrage" (1894)	269	(2)
FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS
[102] "Women's Influence in Politics" (1896)	271	(1)
BELLE KEARNEY
[103] "Suffrage in the South" (1900)	272	(4)
II. The Professions and Higher Education	276	(27)
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL
[104] "Sex and Work" (1874)	278	(2)
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS
MARIA A. ELMORE
[105] "Two Responses to Dr. E. H. Clarke's Sex in Education" (1874)	280	(3)
FRANCES EMILY WHITE
[106] "Woman's Place in Nature" (1875)	283	(3)
MYRA BRADWELL
[107] "The XIV Amendment and Our Case" (1873)	286	(1)
BELVA A. LOCKWOOD
[108] "My Efforts to Become A Lawyer" (1888)	287	(5)
GERTRUDE STUART BAILLIE
[109] "Should Professional Women Marry?" (1892)	292	(3)
ALICE FREEMAN PALMER
[110] "A Review of the Higher Education of Women" (1892-22)	295	(3)
ANNA JULIA COOPER
[111] "The Higher Education of Colored Women" (1892)	298	(2)
PAULINE F. HOPKINS
[112] "Higher Education of Colored Women in White Schools and Colleges" (1902)	300	(3)
III. Clubwomen	303	(22)
[113] "Woman's Suffering from Intemperance" (1869)	305	(1)
FRANCES E. WILLARD
[114] "Aims and Methods of the Women's Christian Temperance Union" (1883)	306	(4)
JANE C. CROLY
[115] "The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America" (1898)	310	(1)
ALICE HYNEMAN RHINE
[116] "The Work of Women's Clubs" (1891-92)	311	(4)
SARAH J. EARLY
HALLIE Q. BROWN
[117] "The Organized Efforts of the Colored Women of the South to Improve Their Condition" (1893)	315	(3)
FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS
[118] "The Club Movement Among Colored Women of America" (1900)	318	(2)
R. D. SPRAGUE
MARY CHURCH TERRELL
ROSA D. BOWSER
[119] "Forum: What Role Is the Educated Negro Woman To Play in the Uplifting of Her Race?" (1902)	320	(5)
IV. Women and Labor	325	(46)
VIRGINIA PENNY
[120] "Women, Work, and Wages" (1869)	328	(3)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
[121] "The Working Women's Association" (1868)	331	(2)
[122] "The Working Women's Association and the Case of Hester Vaughan" (1868)	333	(1)
[123] "Working Women Petition the Massachusetts Legislature: A Modest and Strong Appeal" (1869)	334	(2)
L. M. BARRY
[124] "A Report of the General Investigator on Woman's Work and Wages to the Knights of Labor" (1888)	336	(2)
EVA McDONALD VALESH
[125] "Woman and Labor" (1896)	338	(2)
HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH
FLORENCE KELLEY
[126] "Women, Work, and Citizenship" (1898)	340	(2)
REBECCA
[127] "Letter from a Working Girl" (1886)	342	(1)
LUCY A. WARNER
[128] "Why Do People Look Down on Working Girls?" (1891)	343	(1)
GRACE H. DODGE
[129] "Working and Saving" (1887)	344	(1)
JULIA RICHMAN
[130] "Women Wage Workers: With Reference to Directing Immigrants" (1893)	345	(4)
KATE RICHARDS
[131] "How I Became a Socialist Agitator" (1908)	349	(3)
ANNA DICKINSON
[132] "Work and Wages" (1869)	352	(2)
MARY A. LIVERMORE
[133] "Superfluous Women" (1883)	354	(3)
LUCINDA B. CHANDLER
[134] "Matrimony as a Last Resort" (1897)	357	(1)
ELIZA S. TURNER
[135] "Should Women Work Outside Their Homes?" (1895)	358	(2)
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
[136] "Women and Economics" (1898)	360	(11)
INDEX	371