Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-374).

Here are the essential historical writings of feminism. Many of these works, long out of print or forgotten in a male-dominated literary, are brought out of obscurity and into the light pf contemporary analysis and criticism. Included are more than forty selections, covering 150 years of writings on women's struggle for freedom-- from the American Revolution to the first decade of the twentieth century.

Familiar letters of John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, During the Revolution - Abigail Adams. A vindication of the rights of woman - Mary Wollstonecraft. Course of popular lectures - Frances Wright. Indiana, Letters of George Sand, The intimate journal of George Sand - George Sand. Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of woman - Sarah M. Grimke. Early factory labor in New England - Harriet H. Robinson. Song of the shirt - Thomas Hood. Woman in the nineteenth century - Margaret Fuller. Married Women's Property Act, New York, 1848. Declaration of sentiments and resolutions, Seneca Falls. Editorial from the North Star - Frederick Douglass. Intelligent wickedness - William Lloyd Garrison. Letters from the Prison of St. Lazare, Paris. Ain't I a woman?, What time of night is is? - Sojourner Truth. Not Christianity, but priestcraft - Lucretia Mott. Marriage of Lucy Stone under protest, Disappointment is the lot of women - Lucy Stone. Address to the New York State Legislature, 1854, Address to the New York State Legislature, 1860 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Married Women's Property Act, New York, 1860. Petitions were circulated - Ernestine L. Rose. Keeping the thing gong while things are stirring - Sojourner Truth. The United States of America vs. Susan B. Anthony, Woman wants bread, not the ballot! - Susan B. Anthony. Virtue: what it is and what it is not, Which is to blame, The elixir of life - Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin. Womanliness, Solitude of self - Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The subjection of women - John Stuart Mill. A Doll's house - Henrik Ibsen. The origin of the family, private property, and the state - Friedrich Engels. Woman and socialism - August Bebel. The theory of the leisure class - Thornstein Veblen. Woman and economics - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The lady - Emily James Putnam. Senate Report - History of women in industry in the United States. Woman's share in social culture - Anna Garlin Spencer. The world movement for woman suffrage 1904-1911: is woman suffrage progressing? - Carrie Chapman Catt. I incite this meeting to rebellion, When civil war is waged by women. - Emmeline Pankhurst. Bread and roses. The traffic in women, Marriage and love - Emma Goldman. Woman and the new race - Margaret Sanger. My recollections of Lenin: an interview on the woman question - Clara Zetkin. A room of one's own - Virginia Woolf. On understanding women - Mary Ritter Beard.