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This second volume in the Public Women, Public Words series documents the multiple achievements of American feminism in the early-twentieth century-a high point of the women's movement-as well as the often forgotten continuation of activism through the century's middle decades. The work begins by tracing the emergence of the word feminism as well as the "public housekeeping" movement led by Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and other luminaries. In examining the women's suffrage movement, this volume pays special attention to issues of race, class, regional, and organizational differences that led up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Unlike previous collections, Public Women, Public Words does not end with the vote, but documents women's widespread efforts to extend political and social power and to affect the military-industrial complex during a century of genocide and total war. Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism provides a comprehensive view of the many strands of feminist thought and actions and is essential for every women's studies and feminism collection.
Contents
IntroductionPart One: Varieties of American FeminismI: What Is Feminism?1: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of Self" (1892)2: Sofia M. Loebinger, "Suffragism Not Feminism" (1909)3: Emma Goldman, "The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation" (1910)4: Winnifred Harper Cooley, "The Younger Suffragists" (1913)5: Ellen Glasgow, "Feminism" (1913)6: Rose Young, "What Is Feminism?" (1914)7: "Feminist Mass Meeting" (1914)8: Marie Jenney Howe, Louise W. Kneeland, Maud Thompson, and Frances G. Richards, "A Feminist Symposium" (1914)9: Inez Milholland, "The Liberation of a Sex" (1913)10: Florence Tuttle, "The Psychic Side of Feminism" (1915)11: Gertrude Atherton, "What Is Feminism?"(1916)II: Early Feminist Scholarship12: Marion Talbot, "Present-Day Problems in the Education of Women" (1897)13: M. Carey Thomas, "Present Tendencies in Women's College and University Education" (1908)14: Helen Bradford Thompson, "The Mental Traits of Sex" (1903)15: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Politics and Warfare" (1910)16: Mary Roberts Coolidge, "Why Women Are So" (1912)17: Elsie Clews Parsons, "Sex" (1915)18: Jessie Taft, "The Woman Movement and the Larger Social Situation" (1915)19: Leta Hollingworth and Robert Lowie, "Science and Feminism" (1916)III: Public Housekeeping20: Jane Addams, "The Subjective Value of Social Settlements" (1892)21: Jane Addams, "A Function of the Social Settlement" (1899)22: Jane Addams, "Women and Public Housekeeping" (1910)23: Fannie Barrier Williams, "An Extension of the Conference Spirit" (1904)24: Margaret Murray Washington (Mrs. Booker T.), "Social Improvement of the Plantation Woman" (1904)25: Florence Kelley, "Aims and Principles of the Consumers' League" (1899)26: Mabel Potter Daggett, "Women: The Larger Housekeeping" (1912)27: Clara Cahill Park, "Helping the Widowed Mother to Keep a Home" (1913)28: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Maternity Benefits and Reformers" (1916)29: Eleanor Taylor, "Wages for Mothers" (1920)IV: The Fight for Woman Suffrage30: Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Ida Husted Harper, "NAWSA Declaration of Principles" (1904)31: Catharine Waugh McCulloch, "The Protective Value of the Ballot" (1900)32: Belle Kearney, Mary Wood Swift, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Hala Hammond Butt, and Carrie Chapman Catt, "The South, Suffrage, and the Educational Requirement" (1903)33: Adella Hunt Logan, "Woman Suffrage" (1905)34: Virginia B. Le Roy, "A Woman's Argument against Woman Suffrage" (1908)35: Josephine Conger-Kaneko, "What Will Woman Suffrage Convention Do for the Working Woman?" (1908)36: National Progressive Woman Suffrage Union, "Constitution" (1909)37: Sofia M. Loebinger, "Suffragist and Suffragette: A Sure Cure for Anti-Suffragitis" (1909)38: Harriet Laidlaw, "Organizing to Win by the Political District Plan" (1914)39: Lucy Burns, Alice Paul, Mrs. John Rogers, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Florence Kelley, and Mrs. Bayard Hilles, "Proposed Plan of the Congressional Union" (1914)40: Lucy Burns, "The Susan B. Anthony Amendment" (1916)41: "National Suffrage and the Race Problem" (1914)42: Alice Stone Blackwell, "The Threefold Menace" (1913)43: Mrs. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Mary B. Talbert, Coralie Franklin Cook, Carrie W. Clifford, Mary Fitzbutler Waring, Nannie H. Burroughs, M. E. Jackson, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mrs. A. W. Hunton, Maria L. Baldwin, Anna H. Jones, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Mary Church Terrell, and Lillian A. Turner, "Votes for Women" (1915)44: Carrie Chapman Catt, "The Crisis" (1916)45: Anna Howard Shaw, "My Position on the Different Policies of the National Association and the Congressional Union" (1916)46: "The NAWSA Faces World War I" (1917)47: Alva Belmont (Mrs. Oliver H. P.), "Excuses for White House Picketing" (1917)48: Doris Stevens, "The Militant Campaign" (1919)49: Inez Haynes Irwin and Ava Davenport Kendall, "The Strange Ladies" (1921)50: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Women Are Free at Last in All the land" (1920)51: Alva Belmont (Mrs. Oliver H. P.), Harriot Stanton Blatch, Florence Kelley, Mary Austin, Crystal Eastman, and Mary White Ovington, "What Next?" (1920)Part Two: Feminist Politics Beyond SuffrageI: Political Mobilization52: Margery Currey and Carrie Chapman Catt, "The Victory Convention" (1920)53: Crystal Eastman, "Now We Can Begin" (1920)54: Crystal Eastman, "Alice Paul's Convention" (1921)55: Freda Kirchwey, "Alice Paul Pulls the Strings" (1921)56: Belle Case La Follette, "National Convention of the National Women's Party" (1921)57: Margaret Sanger, " Woman and the New Race" (1920)58: The Nation, "The White Woman's Burden" (1921)59: Ella Rush Murray, "The Woman's Party and the Violation of the 19th Amendment" (1921)60: Mrs. Robert M. Pattinson, "The Negro Woman in Politics" (1922)61: Amy Jacques Garvey, "Women as Leaders Nationally and Racially" (1925)62: Anne Martin, "Woman's Vote and Woman's Chains" (1922)63: Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, Molly Lifshitz, Gloria Swanson, Rose Schneiderman, Mrs. R. F. DeCallies, Rose Pastor Stokes, Mary P. Scully, and Florence E. Allen, "Is Woman Suffrage Failing?" (1924)64: Mary R. Beard, "A Test for the Modern Woman" (1932)65: Genevieve Parkhurst, "Is Feminism Dead?" (1935)66: Alma Lutz, "That Much-Maligned Feminism" (1935)67: Susan B. Anthony II, "We Women Throw Our Votes Away" (1948)II: Equality versus Difference68: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ellen Key, "The Conflict between 'Human' and 'Female' Feminism" (1914)69: Zona Gale, "What Women Won in Wisconsin" (1922)70: Inez Haynes Irwin, "The Equal Rights Amendment: Why the Woman's Party Is for It" (1924)71: Florence Kelley, "The Equal Rights Amendment: Why Other Women's Groups Oppose It" (1924)72: Ethel M. Smith, "Working Women's Case against Equal Rights" (1924)73: Rheta Childe Dorr, "Should There Be Labor Laws for Women? No" (1925)74: Mary Anderson, "Should There Be Labor Laws for Women? Yes" (1925)75: Margaret Mead, "Sex and Achievement" (1935)76: "The Women's Charter" (1937)77: Edith Houghton Hooker, "Beware of 'Women's Charter'" (1937)78: Alma Lutz, Frieda S. Miller, Ollie A. Randall, and Margaret Culkin Banning, "How Can We Raise Women's Status? A Symposium" (1938)79: Alice Paul, Hattie W. Caraway, Mary T. Norton, Margaret C. Smith, Lena Madesin Phillips, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Pearl Buck, Katharine Hepburn, Gladys Swarthout, Mollie Maloney, and Miriam E. Oatman, "Pro: Should Congress Approve the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution?" (1943)80: Carrie Chapman Catt, Marguerite M. Wells, National Council of Catholic Women, Mrs. J. Austin Stone, American Association of University Women, The Women's Trade Union League, and Congress of Women's Auxiliaries, C.I.O., "Con: Should Congress Approve the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution?" (1943)81: Ethel Ernest Murrell, "An Equal Rights Amendment" (1952)82: Mirra Komarovsky, "Women in the Modern World" (1953)III: Work, Labor, and Socialism83: Anna M. Maley, "The New York Shop Girl" (1908)84: Theresa Serber Malkiel, "The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker" (1910)85: Rose Schneiderman, "The Triangle Fire" (1911/1967)86: Mary White Ovington, "Socialism and the Feminist Movement" (1914)87: Pauline M. Newman, "Low Wages and White Slavery" (1912)88: Mary Church Terrell, "My Experience as a Clerk in a Government Department" (1917-1918/1940)89: Mary E. Jackson, "The Colored Woman in Industry" (1918)90: Elizabeth Ross Haynes, "Two Million Negro Women at Work" (1922)91: Mary McLeod Bethune, "Faith That Moved a Dump Heap" (1941)92: National Women's Trade Union League, "Post-War Program Proposal" (1919)93: Katharine Fisher, "Women Workers and the A. F. of L." (1921)94: The Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, "What the Women's Bureau Has Accomplished" (1930)95: Mark Van Kleeck, "Women and Machines" (1921)96: Mother Jones, "You Don't Need a Vote to Raise Hell" (1925)97: Meridel Le Sueur, "Women on the Breadlines" (1932)98: Sabina Martinez, "Negro Women in Organization-Labor" (1941)99: Grace Hutchins, "Women under Capitalism" (1934)100: Rebecca Pitts, "Women and Communism" (1935)101: Betty Millard, "Woman against Myth" (1947-1948)102: United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, "UE Fights for Women Workers" (1952)103: Hyde Park Chapter, Chicago Women's Liberation Union, "Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement" (1972)IV: War and Peace104: Woman's Peace Party, "Program for Constructive Peace" (1915)105: Jane Addams, "Women and War" (1915)106: Pearl S. Buck, "Women and War" (1940)107: Eleanor Roosevelt, "Defense and Girls" (1941)108: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, "Women Enlist Now!" (1941)109: Minnie L. Maffett, M.D., "We Too Must Fight This War" (1942)110: Dorothy Thompson, "A Woman's Manifesto" (1947)111: Charlotta A. Bass, "You Can Vote for Peace" (1952)112: Sophia Wyatt, "One Day Strike for Peace" (1962)113: Karen Koonan and Bobbi Cieciorka, "Anti-Draft and Women's Rights" (1967)114: Jill Severn, "Women and Draft Resistance: Revolution in the Revolution" (1968)115: Bella Abzug, "Testimony for the 1968 Platform Committee of the Democratic National Convention on Behalf of Women Strike for Peace" (1968)116: Women Strike for Peace, "A Woman's Declaration of Liberty from Military Domination" (1970)117: Shirley Margolin, Amy Swerdlow, and Irma Zigas, "The Longest Day of the Longest War!" (1971)118: maude, "Women and War" (1970)119: Bread and Roses, "Speech at the Women's Anti-Imperialist Rally" (1970)120: Linda Alband and Steve Rees, "Women and Volunteer Armed Forces: First Report on a Rocky Romance" (1977)
