Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix Chronology of the U.S. Woman Suffrage Campaign xi Introduction 1
PART I Declaring Sentiments, 1846-1891 Introduction 10 “Petition for Woman’s Rights” (1846) Eleanor Vincent, Susan Ormsby, Lydia Williams, Amy Ormsby, Lydia Osborn, and Anna Bishop 18 “Declaration of Sentiments” (1848) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, and others 20 Speech at Akron, Ohio, Woman’s Rights Convention (1851) Sojourner Truth 24 Christine, or, Woman’s Trials and Triumphs (1856) Laura J. Curtis [Bullard] 26 “Independence” (1859) “Shall Women Vote?” (1860) Fanny Fern [Sara Willis Parton] 41 “Woman and the Ballot” (1870) Frederick Douglass 43 “Aunt Chloe’s Politics” (1871) “John and Jacob—A Dialogue on Woman’s Rights” (1885) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 47 My Wife and I; or, Harry Henderson’s History (1871) Harriet Beecher Stowe 51 “Cupid and Chow-Chow” (1872) Louisa May Alcott 62 “Trotty’s Lecture Bureau” (1877) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 74 “How I went to ’lection” (1877) Marietta Holley 77 Fettered for Life, or, Lord and Master (1874) “A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future” (1885) Lillie Devereux Blake 86 “Another Chapter of ‘The Bostonians’” (1887) Henrietta James [Celia B. Whitehead] 100 Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) Sophia Alice Callahan 108
PART II Searching for Sisterhood: Two Case Studies of Transnational Feminism, 1907-1914 Introduction 114 Interactions between U.S. and British Campaigns 119 Votes for Women (1907) Elizabeth Robins 120 “The March of the Women” (1911) Dame Ethel Smyth and Cicely Hamilton 133 “The Diary of a Newsy” (1911) Jessie Anthony 135 Julia France and Her Times (1912) Gertrude Atherton 138 “How it Feels to be Forcibly Fed” (1914) Djuna Barnes 148 Interactions between U.S. and Chinese Campaigns 152 “The Inferior Woman” (1910) Sui Sin Far [Edith Maude Eaton] 153 “The Oppression of Women” (1915) “In All Earnestness, I speak to all my sisters” (1915) Anonymous 163 “Catching Up with China” Banner (1912) New York Suffrage Party 165 “Heathen Chinee” Cartoon (1912) Anonymous 167
PART III Making Woman New! 1897-1920 Introduction 170 “Women Do Not Want It” (1897) “The Anti-Suffragists” (1898) “The Socialist and the Suffragist” (1911) Charlotte Perkins Gilman 177 “The Australian Ballot System” (1898) Mabel Clare Ervin 182 Portia Politics (1911-1912) Edith Bailey 186 “Disfranchisement” from Mother Goose as a Suffragette (1912) “Taffy” from Mother Goose as a Suffragette (1912) New York Woman Suffrage Party 190 “Women March” (1912) Mary Alden Hopkins 193 “The Arrest of Suffrage” (1912) Ethel Whitehead 200 “Brother Baptis’ on Woman Suffrage” (1912) Rosalie Jonas 206 “Mirandy on ‘Why Women Can’t Vote’” (1912) Dorothy Dix [Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer] 207 Hagar (1913) Mary Johnston 211 “The Parade: A Suffrage Playlet in One Act and an After-Act” (1913) Mrs. Allan Dawson [Nell Perkins Dawson] 220 “The Woman with Empty Hands: The Evolution of a Suffragette” (1913) Anonymous [Marion Hamilton Carter] 225 “How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette” (1914) Anonymous 231 “Our Own Twelve Anti-Suffragist Reasons” (1914) “Representation” (1914) “The Revolt of Mother” (1915) “A Consistent Anti to Her Son” (1915) Alice Duer Miller 235 “A Plea for Suffrage” (1915) Miss M. M. [Marianne Moore] 239 “The President’s Valentine” (1916) Nina E. Allender 241 Fanny Herself (1917) Edna Ferber 243 The Sturdy Oak, chapter 7 (1917) Anne O’Hagan 254 For Rent—One Pedestal (1917) Marjorie Shuler 263 “President Wilson says ‘Godspeed to the Cause’” Cartoon (1917) “Come to Mother” Cartoon (1917) Nina E. Allender 270 “President Wilson’s War Message” Banner (1917) Anonymous [National Woman’s Party members] 273 “Telling the Truth at the White House” (1917) Marie Jenney Howe and Paula Jakobi 275 “We Worried Woody Wood” (1917) Anonymous [Jailed members of the National Woman’s Party] 280 “Prison Notes, Smuggled to Friends from the District Jail” (1917) Rose Winslow [Ruza Wenclawska] 282 “Switchboard Suffrage” (1920) Oreola Williams Haskell 284PART IV Carrying the Suffrage Torch, 1920-1946 Introduction 290 Jailed For Freedom (1920) Doris Stevens 294 “Upon this marble bust that is not I” (1923) Edna St. Vincent Millay 298 “The Suffrage Torch: Memories of a Militant” (1929) Louisine W. Havemeyer 300 The Mother of Us All (1946) Gertrude Stein 306 Notes 311 Selected Bibliography of U.S. Suffrage Literature 321 Index 325
