Tong Chapter One: Liberal Feminism

Readings in Liberal Feminism

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness. Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792
 

John Stuart Mill

The Subjugation of Women, orig. published 1869.

E-text eBooks@Adelaide 2004 based on the Everyman's Library edition, published in 1929.
 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Seneca Falls Address, 1848

The Destructive Male

Solitude of Self, 1892
  This is a full version of the slightly edited text passed out in class.

Soujourner Truth

Ain't I a Woman?
 

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions 1848 Convention

Electronic text, as published by NY: Fowler and Wells, 1881, from the Women's Rights Movement website, ed. Stephen Railton and University of Virginia

Printer friendly version, from Feminism, the Essential Historical Writings, Ed. Miriam Schneir, Vintage Books ed., 1994.