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Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!! A Speech on the Impending Revolution, Delivered in Music Hall, Boston, Thursday, Feb, 1, 1872, and the Academy of Music, New York, Feb. 20, 1872 (Paperback)
Victoria C Woodhull
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This early works is a comprehensive and informative look at the
subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back
to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Francis Galton is said to have founded eugenics with an 1864
magazine article. But a single article does not make a movement and
Galton, by his own admission, did little to promote the idea before
1901. This book demonstrates that eugenists have given us an
inaccurate history of their movement, assigning credit to Galton,
the eminent half-cousin of Charles Darwin, when the real credit
belongs to a woman who was perhaps the most radical
nineteenth-century American feminist. That woman was Victoria
Woodhull, the first woman to run for U.S. President and, with her
sister, the first woman stockbroker on Wall Street. This book
contains all her major speeches and writings on eugenics to
demonstrate that she was the first of either sex to take to the
road and, in hundreds of speeches across the U.S., champion the
idea of creating a "perfected humanity" by breeding "perfect
children." She even beat Galton in his own land, moving to England
in 1876 and introducing eugenics there. Woodhull was not a shy
about her role. The title for this book comes from the headline of
a 1912 London newspaper article proclaiming her "Lady Eugenist." In
1927, shortly before she died, the New York Times would carry an
article in which she praised eugenic sterilization and claimed to
have "advocated that fifty years ago in my book Marriage of the
Unfit."
Suffragist, lecturer, eugenicist, businesswoman, free lover, and
the first woman to run for president of the United States, Victoria
C. Woodhull (1838-1927) has been all but forgotten as a leading
nineteenth-century feminist writer and radical. "Selected Writings
of Victoria Woodhull" is the first multigenre, multisubject
collection of her materials, giving contemporary audiences a
glimpse into the radical views of this nineteenth-century woman who
advocated free love between consensual adults and who was labeled
"Mrs. Satan" by cartoonist Thomas Nast. Woodhull's texts reveal the
multiple conflicting aspects of this influential woman, who has
been portrayed in the past as either a disreputable figure or a
brave pioneer. This collection of letters, speeches, essays, and
articles elucidate some of the lesser-known movements and ideas of
the nineteenth century. It also highlights, through Woodhull's
correspondence with fellow suffragist Lucretia Mott, tensions
within the suffragist movement and demonstrates the changing
political atmosphere and role of women in business and politics in
the late nineteenth century. With a comprehensive introduction
contextualizing Woodhull's most important writing, this collection
provides a clear lens through which to view late nineteenth-century
suffragism, labor reform, reproductive rights, sexual politics, and
spiritualism.
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