Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History

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Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History

Book by Winston E. Langley, Vivian C. Fox; Praeger, 1994. 366 pgs.

Copyright Acknowledgments

Series Foreword

Significant Dates in the History of Women's Rights

Part I A Flavor of the Setting: Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution

Document 1: Biblical Authority and Women's Rights

Document 2: Commentaries on the Laws of England (William Blackstone, 1765)

Document 3: The Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson (1637)

Document 4: John Winthrop's View of a "Woman's Place" (1645)

Document 5: A Seventeenth Century Quaker Women's Declaration (1675)

Document 6: Interaction Among Quaker Women: a Glimpse (1708-1726)

Document 7: Letter to Catherine Ray (Benjamin Franklin, 1755)

Document 8: An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex (Thomas Paine, 1775)

Document 9: A Lack of Good Faith? (1776)

Document 10: Sentiments of an American Woman (1780)

Document 11: "On the Equality of the Sexes" (Constantia, 1790)

Document 12: The Rights of Seneca Women (1790-1791)

Document 13: Did Women Gain from the Revolution? (1790-1791)

Part II The Republican Order and the Cracks in Its Design, 1790-1865

Document 14: Religion, Virtue and the Behavior of Women (1770)

Document 15: Thoughts Upon Female Education (Benjamin Rush, 1787)

Document 16: Report on Manufactures (Alexander Hamilton, 1791)

Document 17: The Valedictory and Salutatory Orations of Women at The Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia (1792 and 1793)

Document 18: Women as Industrial Workers, Organizers, and Strikers in the 1830s and 1840s

Document 19: To the Friends of Christian Education (1835)

Document 20: Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences Between the Sexes (Thomas R. Drew, 1835)

Document 21: Letters to Catherine Beecher (Angelina Grimké, 1838)

Document 22: Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts (Orthodox) to the Churches under Their Care (1837)

Document 23: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (Sarah Grimké, 1837)

Document 24: "The Times that Try Men's Souls" (Maria Weston Chapman, 1837)

Document 25: Discourse on Female Influence (Jonathan Stearns, 1837)

Document 26: The Right of the People, Men and Women, to Petition (1838)

Document 27: Shaw v. Shaw (1845)

Document 28: The Admission of the First Woman to a Male Medical College (Steven Smith, M.D., 1847)

Document 29: Married Women's Property Acts, New York (1848-1849)

Document 30: Declaration of Sentiments (1848)

Document 31: The Rights of Women: A Reaction to Seneca Falls (Frederick Douglass, 1848)

Document 34: "Ain't I a Woman?" (Sojourner Truth, 1851)

Document 35: "On the Education of Females" (Paulina W. Davis, 1851)

Document 36: Syracuse National Woman's Rights Convention (1852)

Document 37: New York State Temperance Convention, Rochester (1852)

Document 38: Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts (July 1853)

Document 39: Women's Rights Convention, New York (August 1853)

Document 40: Changes in Women's Economic Conditions (1853)

Document 41: Have We A Despotism Among Us! (1854)

Document 42: Marriage under Protest (Henry Blackwell and Elizabeth Stone, 1855)<

Document 43: Condition of Black Women Before the Civil War (mid-1850s)

Document 44: Commonwealth V. Patrick Fogerty (1857)

Document 45: Hair V. Hair (1858)

Document 46: Address on Behalf of the New York Divorce Bill (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1861)

Document 47: Changes in the Married Women's Property Act of 1860, New York, and Some Reactions to Them

Document 48: Recognition of Anna Ella Carroll's Military Contribution to the Civil War (1881)

Document 49: The Loyal Women of the Country to Abraham Lincoln (1863)

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)

Part III The Suffrage Issue: One among Many, 1866-1920

Document 51: Congressional Debate on Women's Suffrage (1866)

Document 52: "Keep the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring" (Sojourner Truth, 1867)

Document 53: The Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

Document 56: The Fifteenth Amendment (1870)

Document 57: Address of Victoria C. Woodhull to the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives (1871)

Document 58: The Comstock Law (1873)

Document 59: U.S. v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)

Document 60: Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)

Document 61: "Social Purity" (Susan B. Anthony, 1875)

Document 62: Testimony on Prostitution (1876)

Document 63: Socialist Statement on Women's Rights (The First International, 1876)

Document 64: 1876 Declaration of Rights

Document 65: Letter to Susan B. Anthony (1881)

Document 66: "The Relation of the Sexes to Government" (Edward D. Cope, 1888)

Document 67: "Solitude of Self" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1892)

Document 68: "A Letter on Woman Suffrage from One Woman to Another" (1894)

Document 69: The Woman's Bible (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1895)

Document 70: Black and White Women's Clubs-- Some Goals (1895)

Document 71: Women's Constitution and Health--Some Interpretations (1870, 1895)

Document 72: Women and Economics (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898)

Document 73: Muller v. Oregon (1908)

Document 74: Reactions to Socialists' Position on Women's Rights (1907)

Document 75: The Lady (emily James Putnam, 1910)

Document 76: History of Women in Industry in the United States (1910)

Document 77: The Traffic in Women and Marriage and Love (Emma Goldman, 1910)

Document 78: Hearings on Women's Suffrage Before the House Committee on the Judiciary (1912)

Document 79: Woman's Share in Social Culture (Anna Garlin Spencer, 1912)

Document 80: from a Drunkard's Wife (1894)

Document 80: From a Drunkard's Wife (1894)

Document 82: The Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

Part IV A Woman Is a Woman Is a Woman: The Struggle Continues, 1920-1963

Document 83: "The Flapper and Her Critics" (Gerald E. Critoph, Early 1920s)

Document 84: Adkins V. Children's Hospital (1923)

Document 86: A League of Women Voters Survey of the Legal Status of Women (1924)

Document 87: "Shall Women Throw Away Their Privileges?" (Edward C. Lukens, 1925)

Document 88: "Women Should Have Equal Rights with Men: a Reply" (Burnita S. Matthews, 1926)

Document 89: Working Women Respond to the Equal Rights Amendment (1920-1940)

Document 91: "Challenging Sexual Discrimination in the Historical Profession" (Jacqueline Goggin, circa 1930s)

Document 92: Gender at Work: The Depression and World War II (1933)

Document 93: Employed Mothers and Child Care During the Depression and World War II (circa 1940)

Document 94: Puerto Rican and Black Women's Paid Labor (1940s)

Document 95: Goesaert v. Cleary (1948)

Document 97: Planned Parenthood (early 1950s)

Document 99: Hoyt v. Florida (1961)

Document 100: The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan, 1963)

Part V At the Crossroads, 1963-1993

Document 101: The Equal Pay Act of 1963

Document 102: The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Document 103: "Notes of a Radical Lesbian" (Martha Shelly, 1969)

Document 104: "The Secretarial Proletariat" (Judith Ann, 1970)

Document 105: The Dialectics of Sex (Shulamith Firestone, 1970)

Document 107: The Equal Rights Amendment and Some Arguments Pro and Con (1972)

Document 108: The Second Revolution (1973)

Document 109: Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)

Document 110: Roe v. Wade (1973)

Document 111: "Day Care in Connecticut: Problems and Perspectives" (1975)

Document 112: Diary of a Student-Mother-Housewife- Worker (mid-1970s)

Document 113: The Battered Woman (Lenore E. Walker, 1979)

Document 114: Rostker v. Goldberg (1981)

Document 115: The Second Stage (Betty Friedan, 1981)

Document 116: Black Women and Feminism (Bell Hooks, 1981)

Document 117: The Equality Trap (Mary Ann Mason, 1988)

Document 118: Perspectives on Pornography (1991)

Document 119: The Civil Rights Act of 1991

Document 120: U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops' Letter on Women (1992)

Document 121: "Science vs. the Female Scientist" (Shirley M. Tilghman, 1993)

Document 122: The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

Document 123: Policy on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (1993)

Document 124: "Special Versus Equal Treatment" (1993)

Document 125: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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