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Women of ideas: and what men have done to them from Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich
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Ark Paperbacks
Publication Date
1983, c1982
Language
English
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From the Book
Introduction : Why I didn't know
Objections : Sustained and over-ruled
Mocking our minds
Harassment
Aphra Behn : A case study
Part One. Mary Wollstonecraft and her foremothers : Alone or together?
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Grub street
The bluestockings
Revolution and rebellion
The French connection
Two is a crowd : Catherine Macaulay
Mary Wollstonecraft
Part Two. 1800-1850 : The silent years? : Frances Wright
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Taylor
Margaret Fuller
Anna Jameson
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Mary Somerville
George Eliot
Part Three. Backwards or forewards? A. North America : The failure of the women's movement
History of Woman Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
The third person : Matilda Joslyn Cage
The other side : Lucy Stone
The experience of black women
Clues and curiosity
B. Great Britain : Objections that did not cease : Anna Wheeler
The lady without the lamp : Florence Nightingale
Why not for women? Barbara Bodichon
Justice and patience are not engough : Lydia Becker
Murder and matrimony : Frances Power Cobbe
Let him claim the copyright on this! Caroline Norton
The queen!
Traditional and non-traditional jobs
Hitting a nerve : Women and education
Organization not legislation : Emma Paterson
Sexual economics : Josephine Butler
And still there were more
A life of contradictions : Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Part Four. The Twentieth century : A. Social revolution : Process or event? : Isolation : Emma Goldman
Birth strikes : Margaret Sanger
Cerebration and celebration : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Equality means the same : Crystal Eastman
Suffrage first : Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman
Nowehere to go
B. Militant and maligned : Decades of denial
The Pankhursts
Recruits : Annie Kenney and Teresa Billington-Greig
Confrontation and confirmation
The treasure : Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Sex-war
The delight of defiance
Unable to 'divide and rule'
Emotionalism or objectivity
C. Writing as politics : After the battles
Funding for feminism : Lady Rhondda
On 'showing men up' : Cicely Hamilton
A different documentary : Elizabeth Robbins
Feminism old and new : Winifred Holtby
The whole duty of woman : Vera Brittain
Current culpability : Rebecca West
Interdependence : Olive Schreiner
Remember our heritage : Ray Strachey
Friend or enemy?
Out from under : Dora Russell
Tough politics : Virginia Woolf
Writing with a vengeance
The 'other' politics
D. And when there were none. ... : Woman as force : Mary Ritter Beard
On whose authority? Viola Klein
Men have their cake-and eat it too : Mirra Komarovsky
Selective breeding : Ruth Herschberger
The philosophy of 'wrongness' Simone de Beauvoir
Putting it in perspective : Maregaret Mead
Facing the 1950s
Setting the scene : The 1960s
E. Reinventing rebellion : The old, old story
Payment in kind
Progress or repetition?
Active non-co-operation
Appendix : Life in prison
Chronological table.
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074480003
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