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Defining Documents in World History: Women’s Rights (1429‐2017)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Precursors




Joan of Arc: Letter to the English King




The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus




Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies”—Letter to John Adams




Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman




Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen




Catharine E. Beecher: A Treatise on Domestic Economy




Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century




Suffrage and Sensibility




Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments




Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?”




Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Address to the New York Legislature




Victoria Woodhull: “And the Truth Shall Make You Free”




Victoria Woodhull: Lecture on Constitutional Equality




Millicent Fawcett: “The Electoral Disabilities of Women”




Susan B. Anthony: Letters concerning Casting a Vote in the 1872 Federal Election




Susan B. Anthony: “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”




Anna Julia Cooper: “Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race”




Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Solitude of Self”




Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women




Susan B. Anthony: “The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future”




Mary Church Terrell: “The Progress of Colored Women”




Anna Howard Shaw: Address on the Place of Women in Society




Jane Addams: “Passing of the War Virtues”




Emma Goldman: “Marriage and Love”




Jane Addams: “Why Women Should Vote”




Margaret Sanger: “Sexual Impulse-Part II”




Emmeline Pankhurst: “Freedom or Death”




Margaret Sanger “The Prevention of Conception”




Alice Paul: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee




Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot”




Eleanor Roosevelt: “Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do”




Equality NOW!




Universal Declaration of Human Rights




Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction to The Second Sex




Women’s Political Council Documents




Equal Pay Act




Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique




Testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention




Griswold v. Connecticut




National Organization for Women (NOW) Founding Statement




An Act Ending Sex Discrimination in Government Employment




Position Paper Regarding the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)




Kate Millett: “Sexual Politics”




Ella Baker: “The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle”




Gloria Steinem: “Living the Revolution”




Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment




Equal Rights Amendment




Title IX




Roe v. Wade




Indira Gandhi: “What Educated Women Can Do”




Shirley Chisholm: “The Black Woman in Contemporary America”




National Women’s Conference Plan of Action




THE Personal Is Political




Webster v. Reproductive Health Services




Anita Hill: Opening Statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas




Planned Parenthood v. Casey




Vice President Joseph Biden on Combating Violence against Women




United States v. Virginia




Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Concurrence in Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, v. Carhart




European Union: Summary of Directive on Gender Equality




Malala Yousafzai: Address at the UN “Youth Takeover” Event




Women in the Service Implementation Plan




Hillary Clinton’s Acceptance Speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention




Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt




Angela Davis: Women’s March on Washington




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography