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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Results 1-5 of 43
... Elizabeth Greene , 68 A Bedroom Story , 70 An Unwed Mother , 70 Wilt thou Not Drinke to Me ? 71 Concerning the Freedom of Elizabeth Key , 73 An Act Concerning Negroes and Other Slaves , 74 ENTERPRISING WOMEN Martha Turnstall Smith by ...
... Elizabeth Timothy , 115 Garden Seeds and Flour of Mustard , 115 She Never Lost a Patient by Zadock Thompson , 117 Rebekah Badger's Petition , 117 Procrastination Is Surely the Thief of Time by Elizabeth Foote , 118 We Pay Our Taxes ...
... Elizabeth Drinker , 199 On Reading Mary Wollstonecraft by Alice Izard , 202 The Inconveniences of Allowing Females to Vote , 203 Part Three : The Nineteenth Century HOME AND MARKETPLACE A Carpet for Her Parlor by Catharine Beecher , 210 ...
... Elizabeth Cady Stanton , 256 Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton , 260 EXPANDING HORIZONS A Community of Women by Elizabeth Bayley Seton.
... Elizabeth Bayley Seton , 265 They Also Pelt Us with Snowballs by Sister St. Francis Xavier , 267 I Can Read the Bible ! by Rebecca Jackson , 270 To Improve Female Education by Emma Hart Willard , 272 By Awakening Their Consciences by ...
Contents
Making Pottery at Santa Clara Pueblo | 13 |
NORTH AND SOUTH following page 74 | 28 |
Mary Dyer | 28 |
CHANGING IDENTITIES | 28 |
Advice to a Daughter by George Savile Marquis | 28 |
On the Death of a Sister by Sarah Prince and Sarah | 62 |
REVOLUTIONARY DAYS | 76 |
A Journal Second to None by Elisabeth Anthony | 82 |
The Barbarism of the Times by Ann Hulton 163 | 88 |
AFTER THE STORM | 96 |
following page 204 | 96 |
naTIVE AMERICANS | 47 |
Passengers to Massachusetts | 51 |
EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS | |
CIVIL | |