Women's political & social thought Book

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 Inés 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 Grimké (1805-1879) and Sarah Grimké (1792-1873)
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (Angelina Grimké, 1836)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes (Sarah Grimké, 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 (1915)
Virginia Woolf (1883-1941)
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