Feminist Writings From Ancient Times To Modern World: A Global Sourcebook And History

Author Tiffany K. Wayne

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Tiffany K. Wayne

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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Copyright

2012

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9780313345814

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College Freshman - College Senior

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The history of feminism goes much further back than most people imagine. The common images of feminism-protests involving public bra burning or rallies for reproductive rights, for example-only represent very recent Western incarnations of women's rights and a school of thought that extends back through four millennia of human history.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Entries in Chronological Order.
List of Entries by Region.
Topic Finder.
Introduction.
1: Feminist Writings, 2350 BCE–1899;.
2: Poems (c. 2350 BCE).
3: “How Should the Woman’s Nature Hinder Us?” and Other Poems from the Therigatha (c. 600 BCE).
4: Poems (c. 600 BCE).
5: Speech on Taxation Without Representation (c. 42 BCE).
6: “Women Received from the Gods the Same Ability to Reason that Men have...” (First Century CE).
7: “Lessons for Women” (First Century CE).
8: From Radegund’s Letter to All Area Bishops (c. 560s).
9: An Eighth-Century Female Sufi.
10: Poems (c. 800): Part I.
11: Poems (c. 800): Part II.
12: “I Hate Silence when it is a Time for Speaking” (c. 800s).
13: Writings of Dhuoda (c. 840s).
14: “I Resent the Silk Netted-Gauze Robes that Hide My Lines of Poetry” (c. 860).
15: “Scorn He Should Not Render at the Writer’s Weaker Gender” (c. Late 900s).
16: “These Five Obstructions” (1012).
17: “The Fate of Being a Woman” (c. 1200).
18: The Book of the City of Ladies (1405).
19: “Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve” (1451) and Other Writings.
20: An Open Letter to the University of Ingolstadt (1523).
21: “On the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex” (1529).
22: A Woman Calls for Women’s Right to Preach (1539).
23: Women Encouraged to Study and Write (1555).
24: Her Protection for Women (1589).
25: Book for the Hour of Recreation (c. 1591).
26: The Worth of Women (1600).
27: The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men (1600).
28: A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617).
29: “Equality of Men and Women” (1622).
30: “The Study of Letters Becomes a Christian Woman” (1641).
31: The Disenchantments of Love (1647).
32: The Tenth Muse (1650).
33: Patern
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Feminist Writings From Ancient Times To Modern World: A Global Sourcebook And History

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