Second to None: From the sixteenth century to 1865Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker "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. |
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... corn . One was of white corn and one was of yellow corn . From the white cornmeal she shaped a man and from the yellow cornmeal she shaped a woman . And so the earth was populated again , a changing world and a beautiful world — the ...
... corn , and even dried meat and pemican , are placed in these caches , being packed tight around the sides with prairie grass , and effectually preserved through the severest winters . Corn and dried meat are generally stored in the fall ...
... corn was ripe , she would gather a large pile of mesquite wood and place two or three dozen ears of corn among the twigs . When a match struck the bottom of the wood pile , the corn was roasted . The process was repeated until the ...
Contents
Advice to a Daughter by George Savile Marquis | 121 |
On the Death of a Sister by Sarah Prince and Sarah | 136 |
REVOLUTIONARY DAYS | 148 |
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