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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... by Thomas Dudley , 80 Came Mistress Margarett Brent , 81 A Pilgrim's Legacy by Anne Bradstreet , 82 American Jezebel by John Winthrop , 85 A Cruel Warrant by George Bishop , 88 The Captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson , 90 Examination of.
... Mary Rowlandson , 90 Examination of Sarah Good and Martha Corey by Charles W. Upham , 93 Part Two : The Eighteenth Century MY TIME IS NOT MY OWN Comfortably Housed by Gilbert Chinard , 105 The Most Industrious Sex by John Lawson , 105 ...
... Mary Jemison , 195 Gossiping About by Ann Warder , 196 Sally's Birth Day by Elizabeth Drinker , 199 On Reading Mary Wollstonecraft by Alice Izard , 202 The Inconveniences of Allowing Females to Vote , 203 Part Three : The Nineteenth ...
... Mary Ballou , 220 Every Village Had Its Curandera by Fabiola Cabeza de Baca , 222 A Sempstress Wanted , 224 A Button Business by Samuel Williston , 225 Working in the Mill by Harriet Farley , 226 The Factory Bell , 229 A Factory Strike ...
... Mary Ann Hafen , 385 CIVIL WAR Mother Bickerdyke by Mary A. Livermore , 388 Five Hundred Pounds of Biscuits by Mary Ann Cobb , 392 Yes , We All Shall Be Free by Susie King Taylor , 397 My Dear Master by Lucy Skipwith , 399 Illustrations ...
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 | |