Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Permissions xvii
5. General Introduction xxi
6. Volume Introduction: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents 1
7. Part One. Slavery, Abolition, and Woman’s Rights
8. Introduction 17
9. From A Vindication of the Rights of Men … (1790) 21
10. From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman … (1792) 22
11. From An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men … (1825) 23
12. Negro Slavery (1830) 26
13. Address to the Anti-Slavery Convention, Philadelphia (1838) 34
14. Antislavery Emblem (1838) 37
15. From Slavery and ‘The Woman Question’ (1840) 37
16. ‘Declaration of Sentiments’ (1848) 40
17. Editorials from Provincial Freeman (1857) 44
18. Lecture at Lion Hotel, Warrington (1859) 46
19. Address to the American Equal Rights Association (1868) 47
20. Part Two. Imperial Feminisms
21. Introduction 50
22. Preface to Hindoo Female Education (1839) 55
23. Speech to the Victoria Discussion Society (1870) 56
24. Letter to her sister (8 June 1873) 62
25. Letter to The Englishman about the Ilbert Bill (3 March 1883) 63
26. The Oriental View of Woman (1910) 64
27. Our Moslem Sisters (1911) 68
28. Egypt (1912) 80
29. From The Awakening of Asian Womanhood (1922) 82
30. A Girls’ School in West Africa (1926) 85
31. From Mother India: ‘Behind the Veil’ (1927) 90
32. The Case for the Australian Aboriginals in Central and Northern Australia (1930) 97
33. The World as It Is and as It Could Be: Syria (1933) 101
34. Part Three. Suffrage
35. Introduction 109
36. Suffragist Logic 112
37. Letter to the Convention of the Women of America (1851) 113
38. Speech before the Woman Suffrage Convention, Washington, DC, 18 January 1869 116
39. Womanhood Suffrage (1894) 123
40. Reasons for Woman’s Enfranchisement (1898) 126
41. The Progress of Colored Women (1898) 129
42. Woman Suffrage (1883) 134
43. From ‘Women’s Right to Vote’ (1907) 136
44. The Importance of the Vote (1908) 143
45. Suffragists of Great Britain Uphold the Claims of the Women of India (1918) 149
46. To Women of All Nations (1918) 150
47. History and Problems of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Japan (1928) 151
48. [On Suffrage in West Africa] (July 1931) 157
49. Part Four. Nationalism / Internationalism
50. Introduction 160
51. The International Council of Women – Its Genesis (1899) 164
52. Women in National Life (1915) 168
53. The Future of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1920) 172
54. Women and the Egyptian Nationalist Movement (1925) 177
55. Address in Behalf of the Equal Rights Treaty at the Sixth Pan-American Conference (1928) 180
56. Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in Relation to World Conferences (1928) 188
57. The W.I.L. World Section (1930) 193
58. Assembly of the League of Nations (1930) 194
59. Awakening of Race Consciousness (1932) 197
60. Creative Citizenship (1933) 202
61. The Woman Movement in Latin America (1933) 205
62. Resolution on East–West Co-operation (1936) 208
63. The Struggle for National Rights (1937) 209
64. The Lima Declaration in Favor of Women’s Rights (1938) 212
65. Resolution on the Problem of the Indigenous Woman (1938) 213
66. From Three Guineas (1938) 214
67. Part Five. Citizenship
68. Introduction 219
69. The Colored People in America (1857) 223
70. Petition of the Native and Coloured Women of the Province of the Orange Free State (1912) 224
71. The Nationality of Married Women (1917) 226
72. General Election Manifesto 230
73. Sex Emancipation through War (1918) 231
74. Married Women and Surnames (1926) 240
75. The Legal Status of Chinese Women in China and in Hawaii (1930) 243
76. Minority Needs – The Indian (1933) 250
77. What We Women Can Do (1934) 254
78. Seclusion of Women (1936) 258
79. From ‘Future of the Indian Women’s Movement’ (1936) 262
80. Pan-Arab Feminism (1944) 268
81. Part Six. Moral Reform, Sexuality, and Birth Control
82. Introduction 272
83. The Modern Slave Trade (1880) 276
84. Family Limitation (1914) 280
85. From L’Émancipation sexuelle de la femme (1911) 289
86. Studies in Feminine Inversion (1923) 294
87. Unveiling and Veiling: On the Liberation of the Woman and Social Renewal in the Islamic World (1928) 299
88. The Right to Abortion (1929) 303
89. International Woman Suffrage Alliance: Committee on an Equal Moral Standard and Against the Traffic in Women – from the Report of the Chairman (1926) 308
90. Letter from Keetmanshoop (1939) 315
91. Part Seven. Work
92. Introduction 317
93. Broadsheet: The Working Women’s Society Mass Meeting (18—) 320
94. Employment for Educated Women (1867) 322
95. The Women’s Employment Defence League (1896) 324
96. Employment of Women at Night and Use of White Phosphorus; Women and the Dangerous Performances Bill (1906) 326
97. Women of the Working People! (1915) 328
98. Indentured Labour (1917) 330
99. Resolutions of First International Congress of Working Women (1919) 333
100. Resolution on the Role of Working Women (1919) 339
101. Comrade Najiye’s Address to the First Congress of the Peoples of the East (1920) 340
102. Resolutions Adopted at the Rome Congress: Equal Pay and Right to Work (1923) 343
103. Working Women in Japan: Address to the International Congress of Working Women (1924) 344
104. Guidance in the Choice of a Career (1931) 347
105. The Employment of Women in Aviation (1932) 348
106. Part Eight. Peace
107. Introduction 353
108. The International Arbitration and Peace Association (1884) 357
109. The Peace Congress at Antwerp (1894) 357
110. In the Interest of Peace (1901) 360
111. Women’s Universal Alliance for Peace (1904) 361
112. From Woman and War (1911) 363
113. International Manifesto of Women (1914) 366
114. A Manifesto to Women of Every Land (1914) 367
115. Women and Internationalism (1915) 368
116. An Appeal to Women from Austrian Socialist Women (1915) 375
117. Our Equal Birthright (1915) 376
118. Announcement of Study Conference (1927) 380
119. Arab Woman’s Bid for Peace (1937) 382
120. Exchange of Letters on Disarmament (1937) 384
121. Peace in the Americas (1937) 388
122. The Women’s Movement and Democracy (1938) 393
123. Resolution on War (1939) 394
124. Index 395
125. Studies in Gender and History 407