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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... Duty They Owe Their Country , 193 Ann Bailey of the Kenhawha by Anne Royall , 194 With Them Was My Home by Mary Jemison , 195 Gossiping About by Ann Warder , 196 Sally's Birth Day by Elizabeth Drinker , 199 On Reading Mary ...
... Duties by Eulalia Perez , 362 Is This America ? by Rebecca Burlend , 364 To Warn All Widows of the Swindler , 369 The Veritable House by Eliza Woodson Farnham , 370 The Memory of Old Norway by Elise Waerenskjold , 372 Two Texas ...
... Duty 24. Phillis Wheatley 25. A Society of Patriotic Ladies AFTER THE STORM following page 204 26. Abigail Adams 27. Home of Judith Sargent Murray Part Three : The Nineteenth Century HOME AND MARKETPLACE following page 238 28 ...
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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 | |