Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology

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Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll
Indiana University Press, 2000 - 449 páginas
Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology is the first collection of source readings of women's important writings in political and social theory from ancient times to the twentieth century. It fills a major gap in materials available for teaching the history of political thought and opens paths for exploring the rich and diverse contributions of women as creators of theory. Not confined to works of feminist theory, this anthology makes available substantial selections from women's writings across the political spectrum and in varied forms, from epic poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography to prose works on history, politics, religion, and philosophy. The twenty-five authors represented in the anthology include: the ancient Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna, Sappho of Lesbos, Diotima of Mantinea, Sei Shonagon, Catherine of Siena, Christine de Pizan, Margaret Cavendish, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Mary Astell, Phillis Wheatley, Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Flora Tristan, Josephine Butler, Vera Figner, E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Jane Addams, Rokeya Hossain, Rosa Luxemburg, Virginia Woolf, Ding Ling, Simone Weil, and Emma Mashinini. To illustrate the breadth of interests of women political theorists, the selections highlight works ranging from the political poetry and fiction of Enheduanna, Sappho, Sor Juana, Phillis Wheatley, Tekahionwake, and Ding Ling, to the Dialogue of St. Catherine, Christine de Pizan's Book of the Body Politic, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men, Tristan's The Workers' Union, Butler's Government by Police, Wells-Barnett's Southern Horrors, Hossain's Sultana's Dream, Weil's Reflections Concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression, and Mashinini's Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life. The broad-ranging texts included in the volume cross many boundaries of time, space, class, race, sex, culture, genre, and ideology. The book includes a general introduction by Berenice Carroll, biographical introductions by Carroll or Smith for each of the authors, suggested readings for individual authors, and a selected bibliography.

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Enheduanna ca 2300 B C E
3
Ninmesarra Lady of All the Mes
4
Sappho ca 612555 B C E
8
Selected fragments and verse renditions
10
Diotima ca 400 B C E
13
The Discourse on Eros from Plato The Symposium
14
Sei Shōnagon ca 965?
20
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon ca 994
23
The Workers Union 1843
208
Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler 18281906
213
The Constitution Violated 1871
215
Government by Police 1879
221
Native Races and the War 1900
227
Vera Figner 18521942
233
Trial defense statement 1884 and other excerpts from Memoirs of a Revolutionist 1927
245
The White Wampum 1895
248

St Catherine of Siena 1347?80
35
Letters 1376
36
The Dialogue 1378
38
Christine de Pizan 13641430?
54
The Book of the Body Politic 1407
57
Part Two Seventeenth and EighteenthCentury Writings
69
Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle 1623?73
73
Philosophical and Physical Opinions 1655
74
Orations of Divers Sorts Accommodated to Divers Places 1662
77
Sociable Letters 1664
81
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1648?95
83
First Dream 1685
87
The Letter of Sor Philothea Bishop of Puebla 1690
92
Mary Astell 16661731
99
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Part I 1694 and Part II 1697
100
An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War in This Kingdom 1704
119
Phillis Wheatley 1753?84
123
Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral 1773
127
Other writings 177484
129
Olympe de Gouges 1748?93
131
Reflections on Negroes 1788
133
Black Slavery or The Happy Shipwreck 1789
137
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen 1791
151
Mary Wollstonecraft 175997
154
A Vindication of the Rights of Men 1790
157
Part Three NineteenthCentury Writings
173
Sarah M Grimké 17921873 and Angelina E Grimké 180579
175
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Angelina Grimké 1836
205
A Red Girls Reasoning 1893
253
Ida B WellsBarnett 18621931
260
Lynch Law in All Its Phases 1892
265
A Red Record 1895
273
Part Four TwentiethCentury Writings
283
Jane Addams 18601935
285
Democracy and Social Ethics 1902
287
Newer Ideals of Peace 1906
297
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain ca 18801932
303
Sultanas Dream 1905
305
Rosa Luxemburg 18711919
310
The Mass Strike the Political Party and the Trade Unions 1906
313
The Accumulation of Capital 1913
323
Theses on the Tasks of International Social Democracy 1915
329
Virginia Woolf 18821941
330
Three Guineas 1938
333
Ding Ling 190485
357
When I Was in Xia Village 1941
359
Thoughts on March 8 1942
367
Simone Weil 190943
369
Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression 1934
373
Emma Mashinini 1929
391
Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life 1989
393
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
411
SUBJECT INDEX
419
NAME AND PLACE INDEX
445
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