"Tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world
needs to hear her voice," wrote Anna Julia Cooper, a
nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, teacher, and
novelist. Argu-ing that the voices of women still need to be heard,
the editors of this comprehensive collection have assembled a
diverse selection of writings to illustrate the daily lives of
ordinary and extraordinary women and the historical significance of
their thoughts and deeds.
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 1, which comprises 153 selections, opens with a Navajo
origin myth and presents Native American, Hispanic, African, and
Euro-American women from the sixteenth century through the Civil
War. Both volumes include section introductions that set the
historical stage and comment on the significance of the
selections.
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