At the beginning of the twentieth century it was still necessary
for women to ask lawmakers, "Are women persons?" The rights and
treatment of women in their homes, workplaces, and government were
issues that men in power often preferred to ignore. But women
refused to remain silent. This volume of Second to None, like
volume 1, presents a multiplicity of voices, demonstrating that
there is not a representative American woman, but many women worth
remembering.
Here are women who are shapers of history, as well as its
victims. In diaries, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays,
photographs, and cartoons they describe, rejoice, exhort, complain,
advertise, and joke, revealing women's role as community builders
in every time and locale and registering their emergence into the
public spheres of political, social, and economic life. The
documents also demonstrate the value of gender analysis, for
women's differences--in age, race, sexual orientation, class,
geographical or ethnic origin, abilities or disabilities, and
values--are shown to be as important as their commonalities.
Volume 2 contains 122 selections, ranging from a tract by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the testimony of Anita Hill. Both volumes
include section introductions that set the historical stage and
comment on the significance of the selections.
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