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Women's Political and Social Thought: PART TWO Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Writings

Women's Political and Social Thought
PART TWO Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Writings
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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. PREFACE
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  9. PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  10. NOTES ON THE TEXT
  11. INTRODUCTION BY BERENICE A. CARROLL
  12. Part One. Ancient and Medieval Writings
    1. Enheduanna (ca. 2300 B.C.E.)
      1. Nin-me-sar-ra [Lady of All the Mes]
    2. Sappho (ca. 612-555 B.C.E.)
      1. Selected fragments and verse renditions
    3. Diotima (ca. 400 B.C.E.)
      1. The Discourse on Eros (from Plato, The Symposium)
    4. Sei Shönagon (ca. 965-?)
      1. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (ca. 994)
    5. St. Catherine of Siena (1347?—80)
      1. Letters (1376)
      2. The Dialogue (1378)
    6. Christine de Pizan (1364-1430?)
      1. The Book of the Body Politic (1407)
  13. Part Two. Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Writings
    1. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-73)
      1. Poems and Fancies (1653)
      2. Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655)
      3. Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places (1662)
      4. Sociable Letters (1664)
    2. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648?-95)
      1. First Dream (1685)
      2. Sor Juana’s Admonishment: The Letter of Sor Philothea [Bishop of Puebla] (1690)
      3. The Reply to Sor Philothea (1691)
    3. Mary Astell (1666-1731)
      1. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part I (1694) and Part II (1697)
      2. Some Reflections upon Marriage (1700)
      3. An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War in This Kingdom (1704)
    4. Phillis Wheatley (1753?-84)
      1. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
      2. Other writings (1774-84)
    5. Olympe de Gouges (1748?-93)
      1. Reflections on Negroes (1788)
      2. Black Slavery, or The Happy Shipwreck (1789)
      3. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen (1791)
    6. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)
      1. A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
  14. Part Three. Nineteenth-Century Writings
    1. Sarah M. Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina E. Grimké (1805-79)
      1. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (Angelina Grimké, 1836)
      2. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (Sarah Grimké, 1838)
    2. Flora Tristan (1803-44)
      1. The Workers’ Union (1843)
    3. Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (1828-1906)
      1. The Constitution Violated (1871)
      2. Government by Police (1879)
      3. Native Races and the War (1900)
    4. Vera Figner (1852-1942)
      1. Trial defense statement (1884) and other excerpts from Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1927)
    5. Tekahionwake [E. Pauline Johnson] (1861-1913)
      1. The White Wampum (1895)
      2. A Red Girl’s Reasoning (1893)
    6. Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
      1. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
      2. A Red Record (1895)
  15. Part Four. Twentieth-Century Writings
    1. Jane Addams (1860-1935)
      1. Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)
      2. Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)
    2. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (ca. 1880-1932)
      1. Sultana’s Dream (1905)
    3. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)
      1. The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions (1906)
      2. The Accumulation of Capital (1913)
      3. Theses on the Tasks of International Social Democracy (1915)
    4. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
      1. Three Guineas (1938)
    5. Ding Ling (1904-85)
      1. When I Was in Xia Village (1941)
      2. Thoughts on March 8 (1942)
    6. Simone Weil (1909-43)
      1. Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression (1934)
    7. Emma Mashinini (1929-)
      1. Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life (1989)
  16. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  17. SUBJECT INDEX
  18. NAME AND PLACE INDEX
  19. About the Authors

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