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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... Wife The " wife of Granganimo " in this 1584 description was clearly a woman of au- thority and wealth . But the failure of English explorers to mention her name typifies a common problem in our search for knowledge about the first ...
... wife , aged 35 years 29. James Whitmarke , his son , aged 11 years 30. Jane , his daughter , aged 7 years 31. Onseph ... wife , aged 29 years 36. Hannah Read , his daughter , aged 3 years 37. Susan Read , his daughter , aged 1 year 38 ...
... wife's story if it would " encourage other women . " " My wife's father . . . was a Mr. Graves . He was a poor man , with a large family of children . His wife and daughters used to go over to Northampton to get knitting from the stores ...
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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