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Tables of Contents for American Feminism
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Acknowledgements
ix
 
Introduction: The Woman Suffrage Movement in America -- 1848--1920
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Janet Beer
`The First Convention: Seneca Falls, including the Declaration of Sentiments' 1848*
9
8
`Discourse on Woman,' Philadelphia, T.B. Peterson, 1850*
17
20
Lucretia Mott
`Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Worcester' (1850) and Syracuse (1852), Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse, Masters' Print, Malcolm Block, 1852*
37
8
`Matilda Gage to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse,' Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse: Masters' Print, Malcolm Block, 1853*
45
8
`A Sermon of the Public Function of Women,' Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse: Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1853*
53
24
Theodore Parker
`The Colored People in America,' from The Colored People in America: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, Philadelphia, 1857
77
2
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Address to the American Equal Rights Association, 1867*
79
4
Sojourner Truth
`Women are Voters! New York Suffrage Law,' New York: John W. Lovell Co., 1885*
83
16
Hamilton Wilcox
`Woman Suffrage in Utah', Washington, Government Print Office, 1886*
99
10
Angelina French Newman
Woman Suffrage Speech to the Senate, 1886*
109
16
Henry Blair
`The Ballot and the Bullet Theory' The Woman's Tribune, Editor, 1883--86*
125
2
Clara Benwick Colby
`Unsolved Problems in Woman Suffrage,' reprinted from The Forum, New York: Forum Publishing Company, 1887*
127
10
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
`The Women's Vote in Kansas,' Boston, American Woman Suffrage Association, 1888*
137
4
F.G. Adams
`Woman's Suffrage a Political Necessity,' abstract of address before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, January 28, 1889*
141
2
Olympia Brown
`Questions for Remonstrants,' Boston, American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889*
143
2
Lucy Stone
`Three Dreams in a Desert,' Boston, American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889*
145
4
Olive Schreiner
`The Elective Franchise,' Boston, American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889*
149
2
Various Authors
`Municipal Suffrage for Women,' Boston, American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889*
151
2
Ednah D. Cheney
`Straight Lines or Oblique Lines?' Boston, American Woman Suffrage Association, 1893.*
153
2
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
`Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered,' Boston, American Woman Suffrage Association, 1896*
155
2
Henry Blackwell
`Colorado Speaks for Herself,' Boston, American Woman Suffrage Association, 1897*
157
2
Katherine A.G. Patterson
Helen G. Ecob
`How the Women of New Orleans Discovered their Wish to Vote,' New York, Political Science Study Series, Vol. V, No. 4, 1900*
159
4
Carrie Chapman Catt
Florence Kelley
Evelyn W. Ordway
`What is the Real Emancipation of Woman?' Boston, Woman Suffrage Association, 1902*
163
10
William M. Salter
`Arguments in Favour of Woman Suffrage,' Boston, Committee of the College Equal Suffrage Law, 1905*
173
20
Marion McB. Schlesinger
Mary A.E.M. Buckminster
Mary Leavens
`Suffrage a Right,' 1906, New York, North American Review Publishing Co., 1906*
193
18
Ida Husted Harper
`History of the Movement for Woman Suffrage,' 1907, New York, Interurban Woman Suffrage Council, 1907*
211
16
Ida Husted Harper
`New Fashioned Argument for Woman Suffrage,' New York, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1908*
227
22
Martha Carey Thomas
`Woman and the Suffrage,' The Outlook, 1909*
249
8
Julia Ward Howe
`Woman's Suffrage and Sentiment,' New York, The Equal Franchise Society, 1909*
257
12
Max Eastman
`What Women Might Do with the Ballot,' New York, National American Woman Suffrage Association, circa 1910*
269
12
Lucia Ames Mead
`Six Reasons Why Farmers' Wives Should Vote,' New York, National American Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., circa 1910*
281
2
Amelia MacDonald Cutler
`The Truth versus Richard Barry,' New York, National American Woman Suffrage Association, circa 1911*
283
20
`Equal Suffrage Meeting,' Cambridge, Frank Facey, 1911
303
16
`Women in the Home,' San Francisco, California Equal Suffrage Association, circa 1911
319
2
`How Six States Won Woman Suffrage,' New York, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1912*
321
14
Ida Husted Harper
`Speech on Suffrage,' New York, Allied Printing, 1912*
335
4
Theodore Roosevelt
`The Ballot for the Women of the Farm,' Chicago, 1913*
339
4
Ella S. Stewart
Official Program, Woman Suffrage Procession, 1913*
343
38
`What Have Women Done with the Vote?' New York, National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1915*
381
12
George Creel
`Jane Addams Testifies,' Boston, Woman's Journal, 1915*
393
8
Alice Stone Blackwell
`Woman Suffrage,' 1915*
401
8
Alice Stone Blackwell
`Are Women a Force for Good Government?' Chicago, National Municipal Review, Vol. IV, No.3 July 1915
409
14
Edith Abbot
`Why Women Demand a Federal Suffrage Amendment,' Washington, Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916
423
6
Mary Beard
Florence Kelley
`The Negro Votes in the South,' New York, National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1918*
429
2
Mrs. Guilford Dudley
`An Address to the Legislatures of the United States,' New York, National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., 1919*
431
 
Carrie Chapman Catt
Acknowledgements
ix
 
Introduction: The Woman's Place
1
8
Anne-Marie Ford
SECTION 1: EDUCATION
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64
`Concerning Farmers' Wives,' Boston, New England Publishing Company, 1880*
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10
C.D.B Colby
`The Collegiate Education of Girls,' Boston, New England Publishing Company, 1881*
21
8
Maria Mitchell
`The Gifts of Women to Educational Institutions,' Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1884*
29
6
Kate Morris Cone
`The Problem of Occupation for College Women,' Educational Review, March 1898, pp. 217--230*
35
14
Kate Holladay Claghorn
`Its Wavering Image,' Mrs. Spring Fragrance, 1912
49
6
Sui Sin Far
Edith Maude Eaton
``The Ground Squirrel'' and ``The Big Red Apples'' from `Impressions of an Indian Childhood,' Atlantic Monthly, 1900
55
6
Zitkala-Sa
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
`Education and Democracy,' College Equal Suffrage League, July 1909*
61
12
Francis Squire Potter
SECTION 2: WOMEN'S WORK
73
102
`The Opening at the Gates,' The College, the Market and the Court, or Women's Relations to Education, Labor and Law, Boston, Lee and Shepherd, 1867
75
44
Caroline Dall
`A Report on the Position of Women in Industry and Education in the State of Indiana,' Indiana Department of the New Orleans Exposition, 1885*
119
18
May Wright Sewall
`The Working Girl's Need of Suffrage,' Literature of the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference, circa 1910*
137
4
Agnes Nestor
`Wages of Women in the Corset Factories in Massachusetts,' Minimum Wage Commission, 1914*
141
26
`Senators vs. Working Women,' Wage Earners' Suffrage League, circa 1918*
167
8
Maggie Hinchey
SECTION 3: THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF WOMEN
175
42
`Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia, Tribune, March 1859, New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1859*
177
28
`Southern Proofs of the ``Chivalrous and High-Minded Character'' produced by slavery,' New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860*
205
6
`Southern Proofs that Slavery is a ``Parental Relation'',' New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860*
211
6
SECTION 4: ANGELS OF MERCY
217
48
`Seventh Report of the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia,' 1865*
219
30
`A Report Concerning The Coloured Women of the South,' Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, 1896*
249
16
C.E. Hopkins
E.C. Hobson
SECTION 5: WORKING WOMEN
265
200
`The Status of Woman in America,' A Voice from the South, Ohio, The Aldine Printing House, 1892, pp.127--145*
267
20
Anna Julia Cooper
The Work of the Afro-American Woman, Philadelphia, G.S. Ferguson, 1894, reprinted 1908
287
46
N. Mosell
`The Task of Negro Womanhood,' The New Negro, ed. Alain Locke
333
14
Elise Johnson McDougald
`The Fadettes Woman's Orchestra of Boston,' Boston Evening Transcript, 14 August 1906*
347
24
`Women's National Agricultural and Horticultural Association, May 1914'*
371
22
`Reverence' and `The New Frenchwoman,' French Ways and Their Meaning, New York and London, D. Appleton, 1919
393
 
Edith Wharton
Acknowledgements
vii
 
Introduction: The Female Body
1
8
Katherine Joslin
`The Elixir of Life, or Why do We Die?' New York, Woodhull and Clafin, 1873*
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26
Victoria Woodhull
`A Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation,' 1877*
35
10
Mary Putman Jacobi
`Male Continence,' The Oneida Community, Oneida, New York, Office of the American Socialist, 1877*
45
32
John Noyes
`The Human Element in Sex,' London, J.&A. Churchill, 1894*
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86
Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
`Bicycling for Ladies,' Preface and Chapter 1, New York, Brentano's, 1896*
163
20
Maria E. Ward
Police Records of Prostitution from 1907--1908 in A Record of the Enforcement of the Laws of Prostitution*
183
24
`The Modern Woman,' Metropolitan Magazine, 1912, Washington, Congressional Record, September 17, 1913*
207
8
Helen Keller
`The Woman Voter and the Eugenic Ideal,' written circa 1915, Microfilm, New Haven, Research Publications, Inc., 1977*
215
4
Dr. Anna Blount
`The Problem of Unrest,' SNE, volume 31, n.d.*
219
8
Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes
`Family Limitation,' Fifth Edition, 1916*
227
16
Margaret Sanger
`Birth Control,' A.R. Elliott Publishing Company, 1916*
243
20
S. Adolphus Knopf
`Plain Words to Plain People,' n.d.*
263
4
Katharine Bushnell
`Eliminating Vice from the Small City,' Chicago, n.d.*
267
2
Virginia Brooks
`Race Suicide, Birth Control,' New York, New York Press, n.d.*
269
32
M.P. Dowling
Paul L. Blakely
Austin O'Malley
`Wage Earning Children in Hull House Maps and Papers,' Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895
301
34
Florence Kelley
Alzina Stevens
`The School Children of the Stockyards District,' Reprinted from the Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, held at Washington D.D., September 23--28, 1912, Washington Government Printing Office, 1913*
335
22
Caroline Hedger
The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor in Collaboration with the Women's Education and Industrial Union of Boston, `Household Expenses,' Boston, Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1900*
357
20
`Increased Social Control in A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil,' New York, Macmillan, 1912
377
42
Jane Addams
`The Traffic in Women,' 1911, in Red Emma Speaks edited by Alix Kates Shulman, New York, Random House, 1972
419
16
Emma Goldman
`The Beautiful' in How to Win: A Book for Girls, New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1886
435
10
Frances E. Willard
`Women and Social Service,' Address before the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, November 14, 1907
445
12
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
`Does a Man Support his Wife? And Who Supports the Children?' New York, National American Woman Suffrage Association, n.d.*
457
 
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Emmeline Pethick Lawrence
Acknowledgements
ix
 
Introduction: The Gathering of Women
1
12
Katherine Joslin
`The Eighth Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs,' No. 519, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906*
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8
Mrs. Percy Pennybacker
`The Meaning of the Women's Club Movement,' No. 513, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906*
21
8
Sarah S. Platt Decker
`The Women's Clubs in the Middle-Western States,' No. 515, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906*
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24
Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman
`The Influence of Women's Clubs in New England, and in the Middle-Eastern States,' No. 514, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906*
53
24
Mary Alden Ward
`Clara de Hirsche Home for Working Girls,' Pamphlet, Keystone Printery, New York, 1905*
77
24
Chapters 1 and 2 from `The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs,' Pamphlet, 1922
101
10
Elizabeth Lindsay David
`The Work of Women's Clubs in California,' No. 517, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906*
111
6
Dorothea Moore
`The Effect of Club Work in the South,' No. 516, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906*
117
12
Mrs A.O Granger
`The Ballot for the Home,' Equal Suffrage Leaflet, Volume VII, Number 2, March 1898*
129
2
Frances E. Willard
`Memories of the Crusade: A Thrilling Account of the Great Uprising of the Women of Ohio in 1873, Against the Liquor Crime (Columbus: Wm. G. Hubbard and Co., 1888).*
131
14
Eliza Daniel Stewart
`Suffrage and Temperance,' Boston, Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal, circa 1912*
145
4
Alice Stone Blackwell
`Is Beer the Cure for the Drink Evil?' in The Survey, February 24, 1917*
149
8
Elizabeth Tilton
`Hull House: A Social Settlement at 335 South Halstead Street,' Chicago, Privately Published, 1894*
157
28
Jane Addams
`The Subjective Value of Social Settlements' in Philanthropy and Social Progress, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1893*
185
14
Jane Addams
`South End House: Its 18th Year of Cumulative Progress,' March 1910*
199
30
Robert Woods
`Art and Labor' in Hull House Maps and Papers, Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895
229
18
Ellen Gates Starr
`Our Sister of the Streets' in Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade, Chicago, G.S. Ball, 1910
247
22
Florence Mabel Dedrick
`Organizations within the Settlement' in The House on Henry Street, New York, Rinehart and Winston, 1915
269
22
Lillian D. Wald
`Women's Memories -- Reacting on Life as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby' in The Long Road of Woman's Memory, New York, Macmillan, 1916
291
24
Jane Addams
`The Law of the Fathers' in They Who Knock at Our Gates, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1914
315
28
Mary Antin
`The Social Settlement: What It Is and What It Does,' privately published, Murray Brothers Press, 1913
343
8
Anna Julia Cooper
`A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the US, 1892--1893--1894, Chicago, Donohue & Henneberry, 1895
351
20
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
`Journey and Impressions of Congress' and `At the War Capitals' in Women at The Hague, New York, Macmillan, 1915
371
54
Alice Hamilton
`Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,' Appendix in Peace and Bread in Time of War, New York, Macmillan, 1922
425
18
Emily Greene Balch
Mercedes M. Randall
`The Warlike Seven' in Old Indian Legends, Boston and London, Ginn & Company, 1902
443
10
Zitkala-Sa
Gertrude Bonnin
`Sex Emancipation through War,' Forum 59 (1918)
453
12
Mary Austin
`What Every Woman Wants in Everyman's House,' Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925
465
 
Caroline Bartlett Crane