Nine Women

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ISBN: 9780520229655 | 0520229657
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/1/2002

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Historian Judith Nies highlights the lives of nine women who worked effectively to give women equal rights and access to public life in the U.S., and she writes of women whose environmental activism has been crucial in the ongoing effort to preserve biological diversity on our earth.

Acknowledgments

vii

Preface to the 2002 Edition

Introduction The Tradition of American Radical Women

``I ask no favors for my sex. . . . All I ask of my brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to stand upright. . . .''

(32)

Sarah Moore Grimke

``There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other. . . .''

(28)

Harriet Tubman

``To think that all in me of which my father would have felt a proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.''

(34)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

``Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living.''

(30)

Mother Jones

``The woman is narrowed by the home and the man is narrowed by the woman.''

125

(22)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

``I began to see the Russian revolution . . . as the first stage in the awakening and industrialization of Asia.''

147

(32)

Anna Louise Strong

``Far dearer in the sight of God, perhaps, are these hungry ragged ones than all those smug well-fed Christians who sit in their homes, cowering in fear of the Communist menace.''

179

(24)

Dorothy Day

``Is this America . . . where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hook because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings in America.''

203

(34)

Fanny Lou Hamer

``Our call is to build communities, not only markets . . . our call is to scale the great wall around women everywhere.''

237

(32)

Bella Savitsky Abzug

Women and the Environmental Movement ``Be depressed, discouraged, and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption, and bad politics---but never give up.''

269

(30)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Epilogue: The Legacy of the Radical Tradition

299

(4)

Further Readings and Individual Bibliographies

303

(20)

Selected Bibliography on Women, Radicals, and Historiography

323

(6)

Updated Bibliography

329

(2)

Index

331

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Nine Women

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