Women's political and social thought : an anthology

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Notes on the Text Introduction, by Berenice A. Carroll Part One. Ancient and Medieval Writings Enheduanna (ca. 2300 B.C.E.) Nin-me-sar-ra [Lady of All the Me's] Sappho (6th century B.C.E.) Selected fragments and verse renditions Diotima (ca. 400 B.C.E.) The discourse on Eros (from Plato, The Symposium) Sei Shonagon (ca. 965-1015) The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (ca. 994) Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Letters (1376) The Dialogue (1378) Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) The Book of the Body Politic (1407) Part Two. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Writings Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-1673) Poems and Fancies (1653) Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655) Orations of Divers Sorts (1662) Sociable Letters (1664) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648?-1695) First Dream (1685) The letter of Sor Philothea [Bishop of Puebla] (1690) The Reply to Sor Philothea (1691) Mary Astell (1666-1731) A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part I (1694) Part II (1697) Some Reflections Upon Marriage (1700) An Impartial Enquiry Into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War in this Kingdom ... (1704) Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) Other writings (1774-1778) Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) Reflections on Black Slavery and other writings (1788-1790) Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) Part Three: Nineteenth Century Writings Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) and Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (Angelina Grimk, 1836) Letters on the Equality of the Sexes (Sarah Grimk, 1838) Flora Tristan (1803-1844) The Workers' Union (1843) Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (1828-1906) The Constitution Violated (1871) Government by Police (1879) Native Races and the War (1900) Vera Figner (1852-1942) Trial defense statement (1884) and other excerpts from Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1927) E. Pauline Johnson [Tekahionwake] (1861-1913) The White Wampum (1894) A Red Girl's Reasoning (1893) Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) Southern Horrors (1892) A Red Record (1895) Part Four: Twentieth Century Writings Jane Addams (1860-1935) Democracy and Social Ethics (1902) Newer Ideals of Peace (1906) Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) Sultana's Dream (1905) Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) The Mass Strike, the Party, and the Trade Unions (1906) The Accumulation of Capital (1913) On the Tasks of International Social Democracy ( Three Guineas (1938) Ding Ling (1904-1985) When I was in Xia Village (1941) Thoughts on March 8 (1942) Simone Weil (1909-1943) Reflections Concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression (1934) Emma Mashinini (1929- ) Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life (1989) Selected Bibliography