Second to None

by Moynihan, Ruth Barnes

• ISBN13: 9780803282049
• ISBN10: 0803282044
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

"This is a superb collection. The editors have amassed an unusually wide-ranging set of documents. . . . extremely strong and valuable. I recommend it."-Sarah J. Deutsch, Yale University "Tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice," wrote Anna Julia Cooper, a nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, teacher, and novelist. Argu-ing that the voices of women still need to be heard, the editors of this comprehensive collection have assembled a diverse selection of writings to illustrate the daily lives of ordinary and extraordinary women and the historical significance of their thoughts and deeds. Here are women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims. In diaries, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays, photographs, and cartoons they describe, rejoice, exhort, complain, advertise, and joke, revealing women's role as community builders in every time and locale and registering their emergence into the public spheres of political, social, and economic life. The documents also demonstrate the value of gender analysis, for women's differences-in age, race, sexual orientation, class, geographical or ethnic origin, abilities or disabilities, and values-are shown to be as important as their commonalities. Volume 1, which comprises 153 selections, opens with a Navajo origin myth and presents Native American, Hispanic, African, and Euro-American women from the sixteenth century through the Civil War. Both volumes include section introductions that set the historical stage and comment on the significance of the selections. Ruth Barnes Moynihan teaches history at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway and coeditor of So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining Frontier (Nebraska 1990). A professor of history at Yale University. Cynthia Russett is the author of Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Laurie Crumpacker is an associate professor of history at Simmons College and coeditor of The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 17541757.

Author Biography

Ruth Barnes Moynihan teaches history at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway and coeditor of So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining Frontier (Nebraska 1990). A professor of history at Yale University. Cynthia Russett is the author of Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Laurie Crumpacker is an associate professor of history at Simmons College and coeditor of The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754–1757.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xvii
Preface	xxi
General Introduction	1	(12)
Part One: The Later Nineteenth Century, 1865--1900
Equal Rights
On Marriage and Divorce	13	(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I Stand Before You under Indictment	16	(4)
Susan B. Anthony
Victoria Woodhull and the Woman's Rights Convention of 1872	20	(5)
Abigail Scott Duniway
They Confiscated Our Cows for Taxes	25	(5)
Abby Smith
How I Ran for the Presidency	30	(5)
Belva Lockwood
Spending Her Force in Intellectual Labor	35	(2)
Edward Clarke
Made an Invalid by Doing Nothing	37	(2)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Concerning Millicent's Condition	39	(1)
Mary Loomis
A Visit to the Insane Asylum	40	(2)
Abigail Scott Duniway
A Woman Can Learn, Can Reason, Can Compete	42	(3)
M. Carey Thomas
I Wish You Would Come to Boston	45	(2)
Sarah Orne Jewett
Do You Remember, Darling	47	(1)
Sarah Orne Jewett
The Universe of Truth	48	(5)
Maria Mitchell
Strategies for Achievement
The Business of Dressmaking	53	(5)
Bethenia Owens-Adair
I Really Intend to Be a Doctor	58	(1)
Rosalie Morton
A Well-Organized Kitchen	59	(2)
Catharine Beecher
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Scientific Housework	61	(2)
Ellen Richards
A Woman's Community in Belton, Texas	63	(5)
George P. Garrison
Mr. Beck's Beer Garden	68	(5)
Annie Wittenmyer
A Hospital in New Mexico	73	(5)
Sister Blandina Segale
To the Rescue of These Children from Degradation	78	(2)
Virginia Thrall Smith
That Was a Terrible, Terrible Poor Time	80	(2)
Rosa Cavalleri
A Man Plants the Fields of His Wife	82	(2)
Ten Thousand Organized Women	84	(3)
Leonora Barry
Chase the Scabs with Your Mops and Brooms	87	(4)
Mary Harris Jones
The Black Shadow of Lawlessness	91	(1)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
No Fancier Baby Carriage	92	(8)
Mamie Garvin Fields
Part Two: The Early Twentieth Century, 1900--1930
Shaping a New Century
Letters to the Bintel Brief	100	(3)
Ten Weeks in a Kitchen	103	(3)
Inez Codman
A Servant's Reply	106	(1)
It's ``Mammy, Do This,'' or ``Mammy, Do That,''	107	(3)
Few Opportunities for Relaxation	110	(2)
Margaret Byington
We Have Largely Succeeded in Shutting Up Chickens	112	(3)
Sold Out for a Pair of Shoes	115	(3)
Jane Addams
The Women Were Valiant Fighters	118	(3)
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
More Than I Can Stand	121	(3)
Beulah Stewart
Nobody Ever Locked Their Doors	124	(3)
Mamie Fields
Why Not Get Rid of the Private Kitchen?	127	(3)
Zona Gale
More Conscience Than Conventional People	130	(3)
Brenda Ueland
I Went to Bed a Slave, I Awoke a Free Woman	133	(3)
Martha Farnsworth
Establishing the A.M.A. Public Health Committee	136	(3)
Rosalie Morton
Please Give Me Some Advise	139	(3)
The Work Has Swallowed Me Up	142	(3)
Lella Secor
Like Consecrated Madonnas They Looked	145	(2)
Women Wanted!	147	(4)
Mable Potter Daggett
Good Times
Suddenly We Were Regarded as Having Some Power	151	(1)
Alice Paul
She Demands Release from Monotony	152	(3)
Mary Sherman
I Still Don't Take Anything for Granted	155	(3)
Stephanie Kosior
A Consumer Acceptance Spirit	158	(2)
Christine Frederick
Chock-Full with Colorful Merchandise	160	(3)
Frances Donovan
The Board Was a Vast Expanse of Eyes	163	(2)
Dorothy Johnson
Everything She Didn't Want She Would Give to Me	165	(2)
Ella Turner Surrey
Head in the Clouds and Tail over the Dashboard	167	(2)
Minnie Corum
Listening to Mary Church Terrell	169	(2)
Mamie Garvin Fields
The Body Is Not an Enemy of the Spirit	171	(2)
Margaret Sanger
For the Children's Sake	173	(7)
Part Three: The Mid-Twentieth Century, 1930--1960
Hard Times
A Philosophy of War and Famine	180	(2)
Meridel Le Sueur
Mrs. Roosevelt, I Do Not Want Charity	182	(2)
Self-Sustaining Even during the Depression	184	(1)
Helen Sekaquaptewa
I Did What I Had to Do	185	(2)
Minimum-Budget Menu	187	(2)
There Was a Warrant Out for Our Arrest	189	(3)
Dorothy Healey
``Read The Catholic Worker!''	192	(5)
Dorothy Day
All This Was Illegal, of Course	197	(2)
Hilda Standish
You Are Like a Guiding Angel	199	(2)
Mary McLeod Bethune
A Lost Sex in Collegiate Education	201	(5)
Mary Ritter Beard
Wartime Amazons
All the Luck I Ever Hope to Have	206	(3)
Cornelia Fort
Genevieve the Riveter	209	(2)
Can People Be Heroic without Knowing It?	211	(2)
Elizabeth Hawes
We Had the Reputation for Being a Good Local	213	(2)
Sylvia Woods
I Wanted to Slide Out of Sight	215	(4)
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
All Lies That He Told Us	219	(3)
Irene Castanda
Of Human Rights and Freedoms	222	(2)
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Things That Sustained Me	224	(9)
Helen R.
Peacetime Angels
Barbecue Grills and Sour Cream Dips	233	(3)
Betty Friedan
Dream Houses and Mincan Inlays	236	(2)
The Masculinization of Women	238	(2)
Ferdinand Lundberg
Marynia Farnham
To Rescue Us Wretched Slaves	240	(3)
Adlai Stevenson
Being a Woman Is Her Central Task	243	(2)
Agnes Meyer
None of Us Were Women's Women	245	(2)
Chase Going Woodhouse
Not Any Worse Than Alcoholism	247	(2)
``Allison''
I Cannot Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year's Fashions	249	(2)
Lillian Hellman
Catapulted into the Peace Movement	251	(3)
Ethel Barol Taylor
Be the Best Darn Indian Can Be	254	(3)
Elizabeth Gurno
Mrs. Rosa Parks Remained Seated	257	(6)
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Thank You for My Life	263	(8)
Melba Pattilo Beals
Part Four: The Later Twentieth Century, 1960--1993
Stirring up the Pot
I Was Much Too Busy to Be Afraid	271	(1)
Diane Nash
My House Is Yo'House	272	(2)
Mary Dora Jones
We Must Have the Strength of Our Anger	274	(2)
Marge Piercy
The Birth of NOW	276	(2)
Pauli Murray
NOW Statement of Purpose	278	(3)
Betty Friedan
Eliminate the Institutions	281	(4)
A Flight from the Nature of Woman	285	(2)
Phyllis Schlafly
Vietnam Taught Me a Lot	287	(4)
Lily Lee Adams
I Turned Out to Be a Fighter	291	(2)
Bonnie Halascsak
I'll Never Be the Same Again	293	(2)
Sandra Bailey
Delivering a Baby Is Not Just a Business	295	(2)
Susana Archuleta
Someone Had to Do It First	297	(2)
Shirley Chisholm
Women of the Telephone Company	299	(6)
Elinor Langer
There Are Probably Two Movements	305	(1)
Cathy Tuley
Stereotyped in the Media	306	(4)
Barbara Mikulski
I Think Women's Lib Is Good	310	(1)
Stephanie Kosior
The Sexual Revolution Exists All Right	311	(2)
Joyce Maynard
Freed of Dependence on Men	313	(4)
Martha Shelly
Learn to Cultivate the Garden	317	(5)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
Toward the Next Millennium
No More Than a Matter of Simple Equal Rights	322	(2)
Jane Mansbridge
Tokenized by White Feminists?	324	(2)
Barbara Smith
Beverly Smith
Letter to Ma	326	(4)
Merle Woo
Fury Is the Order of the Day	330	(2)
Andrea Kannapell
I Am Not Given to Fantasy	332	(3)
Anita Hill
Superbowl Sunday	335	(3)
Lynne Tuohy
Rich People Don't Give a Damn about Us	338	(3)
Teresa Amortt
Pat Jerabek
I Would Not Be Doing the Child a Favor	341	(2)
``Sarah''
Abortion Is Not Immoral	343	(1)
Postmodern Patriarchy Loves Abortion	344	(3)
Barbara Newman
Some Very Important Common Ground	347	(3)
Family Medical Leave Act	350	(3)
Patricia Schroeder
She Packed Her Bags and Headed for the Frontier	353	(3)
Sara Sanborn
A New Realization of Relationship	356	(4)
Evelyn Fox Keller
Job's Daughters	360	(4)
Joan Chittister
Our Common Memory Binds Us Together	364
M. Shawn Copeland