A Feminist Reader 4 Volume Set: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (4 Vol Set)

Cambridge University Press, 4/25/2013
EAN 9780521513814, ISBN10: 0521513812

Hardcover, 1904 pages, 23.3 x 15.7 x 11.8 cm
Language: English

Modern feminism has deep roots. Over the past 2500 years, female writers and thinkers across the world have expressed their feelings about gender roles, their frustrations and successes, their struggles for equality. This four-volume anthology brings together the richest collection of feminist texts available with over 120 entries, most of them complete essays or chapters, arranged broadly chronologically. Readers can juxtapose seventeenth-century 'New World' feminist writing with European counterparts, historical with poststructuralist feminist writing, Asian with Anglophone voices and 'difference feminism' with universalist statements. Each text features an editorial headnote and annotation, while the general introduction sets feminism in its historical and global contexts. The anthology's inclusion of multiple genres – letters and poems as well as philosophical or polemical prose – offers new possibilities for the study of genre and feminist discourse.

Volume 1
Introduction Sharon M. Harris and Linda K. Hughes
1. 'Hymn to Aphrodite' Sappho
2. From The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pisan
3. From The Worth of Women Moderata Fonte
4. 'Eve's Apology' Aemilia Lanyer
5. 'The Equality of Men and Women' Marie de Jars de Gournay
6. 'The Prologue', 'The Author to her Book', 'In Honour of ... Queen Elizabeth' Anne Bradstreet
7. From Paternal Tyranny Arcangela Tarabotti
8. 'Women's Speaking Justified' Margaret Askew Fell Fox
9. 'A Philosophical Satire' Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
10. 'Petition of Mary Easty' Mary Easty
11. From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest and from Reflections upon Marriage Mary Astell
12. 'Epistle from Mrs Yonge to her Husband' Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
13. From New Reflections on the Fair Sex Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de Lambert
14. 'We the Widows' New York Widows
15. From WOMAN Not Inferior to MAN Sophia, A Person of Quality
16. 'An Essay on Woman' Mary Leapor
17. Letter to the Countess of Bute Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
18. From The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim Sophie von La Roche
19. Letters to John Adams and Mercy Otis Warren Abigail Smith Adams
20. From The Sentiments of an American Woman Esther Deberdt Reed
21. 'Petition of an African Slave' Belinda
22. From Letters on Education Catharine Macaulay
23. 'On the Equality of the Sexes' Judith Sargent Murray
24. From On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
25. From Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen Olympe de Gouges
26. From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects Mary Wollstonecraft
27. From Letters for Literary Ladies Maria Edgeworth. Volume 2
1. From Course of Popular Lectures Frances Wright D'Arusmont
2. From Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimké
3. From A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill Caroline Norton
4. 'Why I Mention Women' from The Workers' Union Flora Tristan
5. From Letter to Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6. From Woman in the Nineteenth Century Margaret Fuller
7. 'Declaration of Sentiments' Seneca Falls Convention
8. Address Elizabeth Cady Stanton
9. 'Aren't I a Woman' Sojourner Truth
10. 'Marriage of Lucy Stone under Protest' Lucy Stone
11. From 'Aurora Leigh' Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12. 'An Appeal to the Females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church' Mary Still
13. From Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole
14. 'Cassandra' Florence Nightingale
15. From A Woman's Philosophy of Woman
or, Woman Affranchised Jenny D'Hericourt
16. 'We Are All Bound up Together' Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
17. 'Petition presented to the House of Commons by Mr J. Stuart Mill, June 7th, 1866' Helen Taylor
18. From The Education and Employment of Women Josephine E. Butler
19. From The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill
20. 'Manifesto' and 'A New Political Party and a New Party Platform' Victoria Claflin Woodhull
21. 'Some Account of a Proposed New College for Women' Emily Davies
22. The United States vs Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony
23. 'What Do We Want?' and 'Equality of Rights' Francisca Senhorinha da Matta Diniz
24. From The Sexes throughout Nature Antoinette Brown Blackwell
25. 'The Practice of Medicine by Women' Sophia Jex-Blake
26. 'Wife-Torture in England' Frances Power Cobbe
27. 'Coloured Women of America' Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
28. 'Protection for the Working Woman' Augusta Webster
29. 'The Capacity of Women' Edith Simcox
30. 'Marriage' Mona Caird
31. 'Woman versus the Indian' Anna Julia Cooper
32. From Dreams Olive Schreiner
33. 'A Dream of 'Dreams' and 'From our Emancipated Aunt