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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Copyright, Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
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  1. Permissions Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xii-xiii
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  1. Notes on the Text
  2. p. xiv
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  1. Introduction
  2. Berenice A. Carroll
  3. pp. xv-xxi
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  1. Part One. Ancient and Medieval Writings
  1. Enheduanna (ca. 2300 B.C.E.)
  2. pp. 3-4
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  1. Nin-me-sar-ra [Lady of All the Me's]
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  1. Sappho (ca. 612-555 B.C.E.)
  2. pp. 8-10
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  1. Selected fragments and verse renditions
  2. pp. 10-12
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  1. Diotima (ca. 400 B.C.E.)
  2. pp. 13-14
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  1. The Discourse on Eros (from Plato, The Symposium)
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  1. Sei Shönagon (ca. 965-?)
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  1. The Pillow Book of Sei Shönagon (ca. 994)
  2. pp. 21-34
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  1. St. Catherine of Siena (1347?-80)
  2. pp. 35-36
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  1. Letters (1376)
  2. pp. 36-38
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  1. The Dialogue (1378)
  2. pp. 38-53
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  1. Christine de Pizan (1364-1430?)
  2. pp. 54-56
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  1. The Book of the Body Politic (1407)
  2. pp. 56-68
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  1. Part Two. Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Writings
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  1. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-73)
  2. pp. 71-73
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  1. Poems and Fancies (1653)
  2. pp. 73-74
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  1. Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655)
  2. p. 74
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  1. Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places (1662)
  2. pp. 75-80
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  1. Sociable Letters (1664)
  2. pp. 81-82
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  1. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ( 1648?-95)
  2. pp. 83-85
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  1. First Dream (1685)
  2. pp. 85-90
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  1. Sor Juana's Admonishment: The Letter of Sor Philothea [Bishop of Puebla] (1690)
  2. p. 91
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  1. The Reply to Sor Philothea (1691)
  2. pp. 92-98
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  1. Mary Astell (1666-1731)
  2. pp. 99-101
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  1. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part I (1694) and Part II (1697)
  2. pp. 101-111
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  1. Some Reflections upon Marriage (1700)
  2. pp. 111-117
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  1. An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War in This Kingdom (1704)
  2. pp. 117-122
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  1. Phillis Wheatley (1753?-84)
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  1. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
  2. pp. 125-128
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  1. Other writings (1774-84)
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  1. Olympe de Gouges (1748?-93)
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  1. Reflections on Negroes (1788)
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  1. Black Slavery, or The Happy Shipwreck (1789)
  2. pp. 134-150
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  1. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen (1791)
  2. pp. 150-153
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  1. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)
  2. pp. 154-156
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  1. A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
  2. pp. 156-172
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  1. Part Three. Nineteenth-Century Writings
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  1. Sarah M. Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina E. Grimké (1805-79)
  2. pp. 175-176
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  1. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (Angelina Grimké, 1836)
  2. pp. 176-189
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  1. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (Sarah Grimké, 1838)
  2. pp. 189-204
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  1. Flora Tristan (1803-44)
  2. pp. 205-207
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  1. The Workers' Union (1843)
  2. pp. 208-212
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  1. Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (1828-1906)
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  1. The Constitution Violated (1871)
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  1. Government by Police (1879)
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  1. Native Races and the War (1900)
  2. pp. 225-232
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  1. Vera Figner (1852-1942)
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  1. Trial defense statement (1884) and other excerpts from Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1927)
  2. pp. 235-244
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  1. Tekahionwake [E. Pauline Johnson] (1861-1913)
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  1. The White Wampum (1895)
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  1. A Red Girl's Reasoning (1893)
  2. pp. 252-259
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  1. Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
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  1. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
  2. pp. 261-271
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  1. A Red Record (1895)
  2. pp. 271-282
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  1. Part Four. Twentieth-Century Writings
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  1. Jane Addams (1860-1935)
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  1. Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)
  2. pp. 286-295
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  1. Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)
  2. pp. 295-302
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  1. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (ca. 1880-1932)
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  1. Sultana's Dream (1905)
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  1. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)
  2. pp. 310-312
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  1. The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions (1906)
  2. pp. 312-321
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  1. The Accumulation of Capital (1913)
  2. pp. 321-328
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  1. Theses on the Tasks of International Social Democracy (1915)
  2. pp. 328-329
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  1. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
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  1. Three Guineas (1938)
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  1. Ding Ling (1904-85)
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  1. When I Was in Xia Village (1941)
  2. pp. 358-366
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  1. Thoughts on March 8 (1942)
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  1. Simone Weil (1909-43)
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  1. Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression (1934)
  2. pp. 371-390
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  1. Emma Mashinini (1929-)
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  1. Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life (1989)
  2. pp. 392-410
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  1. Selected Bibliography
  2. pp. 411-418
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  1. Subject Index
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  1. Name and Place Index
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