Women's Rights In The United States Book

	Series Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction
	Significant Dates in the History of Women's Rights
Pt. I	A Flavor of the Setting: Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution	1
Document 1	Biblical Authority and Women's Rights	5
Document 2	Commentaries on the Laws of England (William Blackstone, 1765)	6
Document 3	The Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson (1637)	9
Document 4	John Winthrop's View of a "Woman's Place" (1645)	14
Document 5	A Seventeenth Century Quaker Women's Declaration (1675)	15
Document 6	Interaction among Quaker Women: A Glimpse (1708-1726)	17
Document 7	Letter to Catherine Ray (Benjamin Franklin, 1755)	18
Document 8	An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex (Thomas Paine, 1775)	19
Document 9	A Lack of Good Faith? (1776)	20
Document 10	Sentiments of an American Woman (1780)	25
Document 11	"On the Equality of the Sexes" (Constantia, 1790)	27
Document 12	The Rights of Seneca Women (1790-1791)	34
Document 13	Did Women Gain from the Revolution? (1790-1791)	35
Pt. II	The Republican Order and the Cracks in Its Design, 1790-1865	39
Document 14	Religion, Virtue and the Behavior of Women (1770)	45
Document 15	Thoughts upon Female Education (Benjamin Rush, 1787)	46
Document 16	Report on Manufactures (Alexander Hamilton, 1791)	50
Document 17	The Valedictory and Salutatory Orations of Women at The Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia (1792 and 1793)	51
Document 18	Women as Industrial Workers, Organizers, and Strikers in the 1830s and 1840s	56
Document 19	To the Friends of Christian Education (1835)	60
Document 20	Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences Between the Sexes (Thomas R. Drew, 1835)	62
Document 21	Letters to Catherine Beecher (Angelina Grimke, 1838)	63
Document 22	Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts (Orthodox) to the Churches under Their Care (1837)	65
Document 23	Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (Sarah Grimke, 1837)	67
Document 24	"The Times that Try Men's Souls" (Maria Weston Chapman, 1837)	70
Document 25	Discourse on Female Influence (Jonathan Steams, 1837)	72
Document 26	The Right of the People, Men and Women, to Petition (1838)	74
Document 27	Shaw v. Shaw (1845)	76
Document 28	The Admission of the First Woman to a Male Medical College (Steven Smith, M.D., 1847)	77
Document 29	Married Women's Property Acts, New York (1848-1849)	80
Document 30	Declaration of Sentiments (1848)	82
Document 31	The Rights of Women: A Reaction to Seneca Falls (Frederick Douglass, 1848)	85
Document 32	Paulina W. Davis's Definition of the Women's Movement (1850)	86
Document 33	Memorial (Women's Efforts to Influence the Ohio Constitutional Convention, 1850)	87
Document 34	"Ain't I a Woman?" (Sojourner Truth, 1851)	88
Document 35	"On the Education of Females" (Paulina W. Davis, 1851)	89
Document 36	Syracuse National Woman's Rights Convention (1852)	93
Document 37	New York State Temperance Convention, Rochester (1852)	95
Document 38	Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts (July 1853)	97
Document 39	Women's Rights Convention, New York (August 1853)	99
Document 40	Changes in Women's Economic Conditions (1853)	101
Document 41	Have We A Despotism Among Us! (1854)	104
Document 42	Marriage under Protest (Henry Blackwell and Elizabeth Stone, 1855)	107
Document 43	Condition of Black Women Before the Civil War (mid-1850s)	109
Document 44	Commonwealth v. Patrick Fogerty (1857)	113
Document 45	Hair v. Hair (1858)	114
Document 46	Address on Behalf of the New York Divorce Bill (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1861)	118
Document 47	Changes in the Married Women's Property Act of 1860, New York, and Some Reactions to Them	121
Document 48	Recognition of Anna Ella Carroll's Military Contribution to the Civil War (1881)	123
Document 49	The Loyal Women of the Country to Abraham Lincoln (1863)	125
Document 50	Petition to the Senate and House of Representatives and Editorial by Theodore Tilton of the New York Independent, Regarding Women's Suffrage and the Fourteenth Amendment (1865)	127
Pt. III	The Suffrage Issue: One among Many, 1866-1920	131
Document 51	Congressional Debate on Women's Suffrage (1866)	139
Document 52	"Keep the Thing Going while Things Are Stirring" (Sojourner Truth, 1867)	141
Document 53	The Fourteenth Amendment (1868)	143
Document 54	Statement by Frederick Douglass (1869)	144
Document 55	An Act to Grant to the Women of Wyoming the Right of Suffrage, and to Hold Office (1869)	144
Document 56	The Fifteenth Amendment (1870)	145
Document 57	Address of Victoria C. Woodhull to the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives (1871)	146
Document 58	The Comstock Law (1873)	147
Document 59	U.S. v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)	149
Document 60	Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)	151
Document 61	"Social Purity" (Susan B. Anthony, 1875)	153
Document 62	Testimony on Prostitution (1876)	158
Document 63	Socialist Statement on Women's Rights (The First International, 1876)	159
Document 64	1876 Declaration of Rights	160
Document 65	Letter to Susan B. Anthony (1881)	164
Document 66	"The Relation of the Sexes to Government" (Edward D. Cope, 1888)	166
Document 67	"Solitude of Self" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1892)	169
Document 68	"A Letter on Woman Suffrage from One Woman to Another" (1894)	171
Document 69	The Woman's Bible (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1895)	173
Document 70	Black and White Women's Clubs - Some Goals (1895)	176
Document 71	Women's Constitution and Health - Some Interpretations (1870, 1895)	179
Document 72	Women and Economics (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898)	181
Document 73	Muller v. Oregon (1908)	187
Document 74	Reactions to Socialists' Position on Women's Rights (1907)	189
Document 75	The Lady (Emily James Putnam, 1910)	190
Document 76	History of Women in Industry in the United States (1910)	193
Document 77	The Traffic in Women and Marriage and Love (Emma Goldman, 1910)	201
Document 78	Hearings on Women's Suffrage Before the House Committee on the Judiciary (1912)	209
Document 79	Woman's Share in Social Culture (Anna Garlin Spencer, 1912)	210
Document 80	From a Drunkard's Wife (1894)	216
Document 81	Sex Education and Contraception (1913)	216
Document 82	The Nineteenth Amendment (1920)	220
Pt. IV	A Woman Is a Woman Is a Woman: The Struggle Continues, 1920-1963	223
Document 83	"The Flapper and Her Critics" (Gerald E. Critoph, early 1920s)	231
Document 84	Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)	234
Document 85	Proposed Equal Rights Amendment (1923)	235
Document 86	A League of Women Voters Survey of the Legal Status of Women (1924)	236
Document 87	"Shall Women Throw Away Their Privileges?" (Edward C. Lukens, 1925)	239
Document 88	"Women Should Have Equal Rights with Men: A Reply" (Burnita S. Matthews, 1926)	241
Document 89	Working Women Respond to the Equal Rights Amendment (1920-1940)	244
Document 90	Regulation of Employment for Women (1933)	246
Document 91	"Challenging Sexual Discrimination in the Historical Profession" (Jacqueline Goggin, circa 1930s)	248
Document 92	Gender at Work: The Depression and World War II (1933)	250
Document 93	Employed Mothers and Child Care During the Depression and World War II (circa 1940)	255
Document 94	Puerto Rican and Black Women's Paid Labor (1940s)	257
Document 95	Goesaert v. Cleary (1948)	260
Document 96	"Why I Quit Working" (1951)	262
Document 97	Planned Parenthood (early 1950s)	264
Document 98	"Women Are People" (1952)	265
Document 99	Hoyt v. Florida (1961)	266
Document 100	The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan, 1963)	267
Pt. V	At the Crossroads, 1963-1993	273
Document 101	The Equal Pay Act of 1963	279
Document 102	The Civil Rights Act of 1964	280
Document 103	"Notes of a Radical Lesbian" (Martha Shelly, 1969)	283
Document 104	"The Secretarial Proletariat" (Judith Ann, 1970)	285
Document 105	The Dialectics of Sex (Shulamith Firestone, 1970)	286
Document 106	Reed v. Reed (1971)	289
Document 107	The Equal Rights Amendment and Some Arguments Pro and Con (1972)	290
Document 108	The Second Revolution (1973)	293
Document 109	Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)	294
Document 110	Roe v. Wade (1973)	296
Document 111	"Day Care in Connecticut: Problems and Perspectives" (1975)	299
Document 112	Diary of a Student-Mother-Housewife-Worker (mid-1970s)	299
Document 113	The Battered Woman (Lenore E. Walker, 1979)	301
Document 114	Rostker v. Goldberg (1981)	305
Document 115	The Second Stage (Betty Friedan, 1981)	307
Document 116	Black Women and Feminism (bell hooks, 1981)	309
Document 117	The Equality Trap (Mary Ann Mason, 1988)	312
Document 118	Perspectives on Pornography (1991)	315
Document 119	The Civil Rights Act of 1991	318
Document 120	U.S. Roman Catholic Bishop's Letter on Women (1992)	320
Document 121	"Science vs. the Female Scientist" (Shirley M. Tilghman, 1993)	321
Document 122	The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	324
Document 123	Policy on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (1993)	325
Document 124	"Special Versus Equal Treatment" (1993)	326
Document 125	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women	327
	Glossary	331
	Women's Organizations	335
	Bibliography	341
	Index	351