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INTRODUCTION Splitting Differences: Conceiving of American Feminism

PART ONE Identities Through Adversity: Women in Colonial North America

[1] "The Examination of Anne Hutchinson" (1637)

MARGARET BRENT

[2] "Petition to the Maryland Assembly Requesting the Right to Vote" (1648)

MARY DYER

[3] "Letter to the Massachusetts General Court Protesting the Persecution of Quakers" (1659)

[4] "The Examinations of Susannah Martin and Martha Carrier for the Crime of Witchcraft" (1692)

ANNE BRADSTREET

[5] Poems

"The Prologue" (1650)

"The Author to Her Book" (1678)

MARY ROWLANDSON

[6] "Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes" (1682)

PHILLIS WHEATLEY

[7] Poems

"On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1773)

"The Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." (1773)

ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE

[8] "Uncommon Occurrences" (1774)

PART TWO Of Education and Virtue: Women's Thought in the Revolutionary and Early National Periods

I. Revolutionizing the Family and Relations Between the Sexes

ESTHER DEBERDT REED

[9] "Sentiments of an American Woman" (1780)

BELINDA

[10] "Petition of an African Slave" (1782)

KATTEUHA

[11] "Letter to President Benjamin Franklin" (1787)

HANNAH ADAMS

[12] "Women Invited to War" (1787)

[13] "The Humble Address of Ten Thousand Federal Maids" (1791)

[14] "On the Supposed Superiority of the Masculine Understanding" (1791)

[15] "On Matrimonial Obedience" (1792)

[16] "Lines, Written by a Lady, Who Was Questioned Respecting Her Inclination to Marry" (1794)

[17] "A Second Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1801)

[18] "The Criterion of Virtue" (1802)

HANNAH MATHER CROCKER

[19] "On the Real Rights of Women with Their Appropriate Duties" (1818)

II. Education and Women's Literary Culture

JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY

[20] "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790)

ANN LOXLEY

ELIZA SHRUPP

MOLLY WALLACE

PRISCILLA MASON

[21] "Orations Delivered to the Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia" (1793)

SUSANNA ROWSON

[22] "The Death of Charlotte Temple" (1794)

HANNAH WEBSTER FOSTER

[23] "The Coquette" (1797)

[24] "The Female Advocate" (1801)

MERCY OTIS WARREN

[25] "On Writing a Political History of the American Revolution" (1805)

EMMA WILLARD

[26] "An Address to the Public, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education" (1819)

PART THREE Early Rights Consciousness in Antebellum America

142

I. Contesting Woman's Nature and Woman's Sphere

JARENA LEE

[27] "My Call to Preach the Gospel" (1836)

SARAH GRIMKE

[28] "The Equality of the Sexes" (1838)

CATHARINE BEECHER

[29] "The Importance of Domestic Economy" (1842)

102

ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH

[30] "A Woman-Thought, a Woman-Perception, a Woman-Intuition" (1851)

106

[31] "Resolution on `Woman's Sphere,' at the Second Woman's Rights Convention" (1851)

110

LUCY STONE

[32] "Leave Women, Then, to Find Their Sphere" (1855)

110

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

[33] "Are the Sexes Different?" (1855)

112

M. FARLEY EMERSON

[34] "Woman's Sphere, Woman's Nature" (1857)

113

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS (HARPER)

[35] "The Two Offers" (1859)

115

II. Women's Reform Movements

120

FRANCES WRIGHT

[36] "The Nashoba Experiment," (1828)

124

THE NEW YORK FEMALE MORAL REFORM SOCIETY

[37] "An Appeal to the Wives, Mothers, and Daughters of Our Land" (1836)

127

LYDIA MARIA CHILD

[38] "Amelia Norman's Innocence" (1844)

130

MARGARET FULLER

[39] "Who Is Guilty in the Case of Amelia Norman?" (1850)

131

EMMA C. EMBURY

[40] "The Ruined Family" (1839)

132

LUCY STONE

[41] "Woman and Temperance" (1853)

136

HARRIET FARLEY

[42] "The Aim of the Offering" (1845)

138

SARAH G. BAGLEY

[43] "Speech on Behalf of the Female Labor Reform Association of Lowell" (1845)

140

JANE SOPHIA APPLETON

[44] "Sequel to the `Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century'" (1848)

141

LYDIA HASBROUCK

[45] "Traitors to the Cause of Dress Reform" (1857)

143

[46] "Short Hair and Short Dresses" (1857)

145

LUCY STONE

[47] "Dress a Consequence of Woman's Vassalage--Not Its Cause" (1857)

146

III. The Anti-Slavery Movement

147

MARIA W. STEWART

[48] "Why Sit Ye Here and Die?" (1832)

151

ANGELINA GRIMKE

[49] "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" (1836)

153

CATHARINE BEECHER

[50] "An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism" (1837)

155

LYDIA MARIA CHILD

[51] "The Quadroons" (1849)

158

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

[52] "A Senator Is But a Man" (1852)

163

LOUISA J. HALL

[53] "Birth in the Slave's Hut" (1849)

168

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS (HARPER)

[54] Poems

168

"The Slave Mother" (1854)

168

"Eliza Harris" (1854)

169

ELIZABETH C. WRIGHT

MRS. WILLIAMS

LUCRETIA MOTT

[55] "Women Speak Out at an Anti-Slavery Meeting in Philadelphia" (1853)

170

HARRIET JACOBS

[56] "A Perilous Passage in a Slave Girl's Life" (1861)

173

HARRIET TUBMAN

[57] "The Underground Railroad" (1863)

176

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

IV. Contesting Women's Rights

182

MARGARET FULLER

[59] "The Great Lawsuit" (1843)

187

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

LUCRETIA MOTT

MARTHA C. WRIGHT

MARY ANN McCLINTOCK

JANE C. HUNT

[60] "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (1848)

190

LUCRETIA MOTT

[61] "Discourse on Woman" (1849)

193

PAULINA W. DAVIS

[62] "Justice for Women" (1850)

197

HADDIE LANE

[63] "Woman's Rights" (1850)

199

FRANCES D. GAGE

[64] "Woman's Natural Rights" (1851)

201

SOJOURNER TRUTH

[65] "A'n't I a Woman?" (1851)

203

[66] "Resolving to Reform Marriage Laws at the Woman's Rights Convention in Rochester" (1853)

204

LUCY STONE

HENRY B. BLACKWELL

[67] "The Marriage of Lucy Stone under Protest" (1855)

205

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

[68] "Address to the New York Legislature" (1854)

206

MARY S. GOVE (NICHOLS)

[69] "Woman, an Individual" (1854)

212

[70] "Rights for All Women of Whatsoever Color" (1854)

216

ANNE E. McDOWELL

[71] "Woman's Rights and Slavery" (1856)

218

[72] "Resolutions of the Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention in New York" (1856)

219

CAROLINE H. DALL

[73] "Woman's Right to Labor" (1859)

220

ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

ERNESTINE ROSE

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

[74] "Debating Marriage and Divorce Laws" (1860)

223

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

LYDIA MOTT

ERNESTINE ROSE

MARTHA C. WRIGHT

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

[75] "Appeal to the Women of New York" (1860)

227

PART FOUR The Post-Civil War Struggle for Political and Social Equality

231

140

I. Suffrage and Other Essential Rights

233

SOJOURNER TRUTH

[76] "Colored Men Will Be Masters Over the Women" (1867)

237

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

[77] "Suffrage for All, White and Black, Male and Female" (1868)

238

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

[78] "Letter to the Colored Men's State Convention in Utica, New York" (1868)

239

[79] "A Colored Woman's Voice" (1869)

240

PAULINA DAVIS

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

FRANCES HARPER

[80] "Debate on the Fifteenth Amendment" (1869)

240

[81] "Petitions for a Sixteenth Amendment" (1876)

241

[82] "United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony" (1873)

244

VICTORIA WOODHULL

[83] "Declaration of Candidacy for the Presidency of the United States" (1870)

245

VICTORIA WOODHULL

[84] "Letter Accepting the Presidential Nomination of the Equal Rights Party" (1872)

246

VICTORIA WOODHULL

[85] "Constitutional Equality" (1871)

248

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

[86] "Infanticide and Prostitution" (1868)

250

[87] "Child Murder" (1868)

251

MATILDA E. J. GAGE

[88] "Is Woman Her Own?" (1868)

252

[89] "Political Organization" (1870)

253

LAURA CURTIS BULLARD

[90] "What Flag Shall We Fly?" (1870)

254

LULA GREENE RICHARDS

EMMELINE B. WELLS

[91] "Women's Rights and Polygamy" (1876)

256

FANNIE McCORMICK

[92] "A Kansas Farm" (1891)

257

ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

[93] "The Physical Force Argument and the Vote" (1895)

258

SARA T. DRUKKER

[94] "Voting Mothers" (1897)

260

JULIA WARD HOWE

[95] "The Moral Initiative as Belonging to Women" (1893)

260

FRANCES E. W. HARPER

[96] "Woman's Political Future" (1893)

262

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

[97] "An Educational Suffrage Qualification Necessary" (1897)

264

ELIZABETH BURRILL CURTIS

[98] "The Present Crisis" (1897)

264

HARRIET STANTON BLATCH

[99] "Educated Suffrage a Fetich [sic]" (1897)

266

D. ANNA GARDNER

[100] "Educated Suffrage a Step Backward" (1897)

268

M. PUTNAM-JACOBI

[101] "`Common Sense' Applied to Woman Suffrage" (1894)

269

FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS

[102] "Women's Influence in Politics" (1896)

271

BELLE KEARNEY

[103] "Suffrage in the South" (1900)

272

II. The Professions and Higher Education

276

ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

[104] "Sex and Work" (1874)

278

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

MARIA A. ELMORE

[105] "Two Responses to Dr. E. H. Clarke's Sex in Education" (1874)

280

FRANCES EMILY WHITE

[106] "Woman's Place in Nature" (1875)

283

MYRA BRADWELL

[107] "The XIV Amendment and Our Case" (1873)

286

BELVA A. LOCKWOOD

[108] "My Efforts to Become A Lawyer" (1888)

287

GERTRUDE STUART BAILLIE

[109] "Should Professional Women Marry?" (1892)

292

ALICE FREEMAN PALMER

[110] "A Review of the Higher Education of Women" (1892-22)

295

ANNA JULIA COOPER

[111] "The Higher Education of Colored Women" (1892)

298

PAULINE F. HOPKINS

[112] "Higher Education of Colored Women in White Schools and Colleges" (1902)

300

III. Clubwomen

303

[113] "Woman's Suffering from Intemperance" (1869)

305

FRANCES E. WILLARD

[114] "Aims and Methods of the Women's Christian Temperance Union" (1883)

306

JANE C. CROLY

[115] "The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America" (1898)

310

ALICE HYNEMAN RHINE

[116] "The Work of Women's Clubs" (1891-92)

311

SARAH J. EARLY

HALLIE Q. BROWN

[117] "The Organized Efforts of the Colored Women of the South to Improve Their Condition" (1893)

315

FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS

[118] "The Club Movement Among Colored Women of America" (1900)

318

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

IV. Women and Labor

325

VIRGINIA PENNY

[120] "Women, Work, and Wages" (1869)

328

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

[121] "The Working Women's Association" (1868)

331

[122] "The Working Women's Association and the Case of Hester Vaughan" (1868)

333

[123] "Working Women Petition the Massachusetts Legislature: A Modest and Strong Appeal" (1869)

334

L. M. BARRY

[124] "A Report of the General Investigator on Woman's Work and Wages to the Knights of Labor" (1888)

336

EVA McDONALD VALESH

[125] "Woman and Labor" (1896)

338

HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH

FLORENCE KELLEY

[126] "Women, Work, and Citizenship" (1898)

340

REBECCA

[127] "Letter from a Working Girl" (1886)

342

LUCY A. WARNER

[128] "Why Do People Look Down on Working Girls?" (1891)

343

GRACE H. DODGE

[129] "Working and Saving" (1887)

344

JULIA RICHMAN

[130] "Women Wage Workers: With Reference to Directing Immigrants" (1893)

345

KATE RICHARDS

[131] "How I Became a Socialist Agitator" (1908)

349

ANNA DICKINSON

[132] "Work and Wages" (1869)

352

MARY A. LIVERMORE

[133] "Superfluous Women" (1883)

354

LUCINDA B. CHANDLER

[134] "Matrimony as a Last Resort" (1897)

357

ELIZA S. TURNER

[135] "Should Women Work Outside Their Homes?" (1895)

358

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

[136] "Women and Economics" (1898)

360

INDEX

371