The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

Here are, as Alice Rossi claims in her well-written preface, ‘the essential works of feminism, ‘ published over a period of 200 years. Her introductions to each section are informative and written with nonpolemical grace. — Doris Grumbach, New Republic

Introduction : analysis versus action —
“Remember the Ladies”: Abigail Adams vs. John Adams —
Selected letters from the Adams family correspondence —
Away from puddings and garments : Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) —
On the equality of the sexes / Judith Sargent Murray —
Champion of womankind: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) —
A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft —
Woman of Action: Frances Wright (1795-1852) —
Education ; Of free enquiry / Frances Wright —
The first woman sociologist: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) —
Society in America / Harriet Martineau —
The making of a cosmopolitan humanist: Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) —
The great lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus women / Margaret fuller —
Prestige from the other sex: John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) —
The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill. Introduction: social roots of the woman’s movement in America —
From abolition to sex equity: Sarah Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879) —
Appeal to the Christian woman of the South / Angelina Grimké —
Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of women / Sarah Grimké —
Letters to Catherine Beecher / Angelina Grimké —
The Blackwell Clan —
Medicine as a profession for women / Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell —
Sex and evolution / Antoinette Brown Blackwell —
A feminist friendship: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) —
Motherhood / Elizabeth Cady Stanton —
Introduction to The Woman’s Bible / Elizabeth Cady Stanton —
Along the Suffrage Trail —
Selections from the History of Woman Suffrage —
Seneca Falls convention —
Reminiscences of Emily Collins —
The Akron Convention —
The Newport convention —
The Kansas Campaign of 1867 —
Political equality for women. Introduction: feminism and class politics —
Marriage and property: Friedrich Engles (1820-1895) —
The origin of the family / Friedrich Engels —
Working-class socialist: August Bebel (1840-1913) —
Woman and socialism / August Bebel —
Red Emma on women: Emma Goldman (1869-1940) —
The tragedy of woman’s emancipation / Emma Goldman —
the right to one’s body: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) —
My fight for birth control : Birth Control- a parent’s problem or woman’s? / Margaret Sanger —
Beware the State: Suzanne LaFollette (b. 1893) —
Concerning Women / Suzanne LaFollette —
The “Militant Madonna”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) —
Women and Econommics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman —
Pioneer on the urban frontier: Jane Addams (1860-1935) —
Utilization of women in city Government / Jane Addams —
Introduction: Feminism and intellectual complexity. Guineas and locks: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) —
A room of one’s own / Virginia Woolf —
Cultural stretch: Margaret Mead (b.1901) —
Sex and temperament / Margaret Mead —
A not-so rebellious “other”: Simone de Beauvoir (b. 1908) —
The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir