American Feminism: Key Source Documents, 1848-1920

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Janet Beer, Katherine Joslin, Anne Trudgill
Psychology Press, Nov 28, 2002 - History - 1600 pages

This anthology publishes key documents in the history of American feminism that are currently only available in extract form or in archives.
This set spans from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women's suffrage in 1920, and includes works of well-known women's campaigners such as: Angelina and Sarah M. Grimke, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Fuller, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Carrie Chapman Catt, Jane Addams, Matilda Gage and others.
The collection also contains anti-feminist writings, by both men and women, including socio-medical writings and examples from health manuals.

 

Contents

Katherine Joslin
7
Mary Putman Jacobi A Question of Rest for Women
35
John Noyes Male Continence The Oneida Community
45
Dr Elizabeth Blackwell The Human Element in Sex
77
INTRODUCTION
83
CHAPTER I
89
ON THE ABUSES OF SEXI MASTURBATION
114
CHAPTER IV
124
Helen Keller The Modern Woman Metropolitan
207
Dr Marie Carmichael Stopes The Problem of Unrest
219
Margaret Sanger Family Limitation Fifth Edition
227
S Adolphus Knopf Birth Control A R Elliott
243
Katharine Bushnell Plain Words to Plain People n d
263
POSITION AND POWER 71
288
September 17 1913
335
MEDICAL GUIDANCE OF LEGISLATION
339

ON THE ABUSES OF SEX continuedII FORNICATION
140
CHAPTER VI
150
Maria E Ward Bicycling for Ladies Preface and
163
PAGE
173
Police Records of Prostitution from 19071908 in
183
7
185
The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor in
357
Jane Addams Increased Social Control in A New
377
Emma Goldman The Traffic in Women 1911 in
419
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Women and Social Service
445
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Emmeline Pethick
457
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