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Family Liberation / August 1888

Marriage

Caird’s 1888 essay refuses to treat women’s constrained circumstances as proof of nature, asking how dependence and compulsory union distort equal intimacy.

Mona Caird / 3 mins

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Political Participation / 1879

Social and Political Equality of Women and Men

Hubertine Auclert’s 1879 speech connects voting, education and domestic remuneration while rejecting promises of equality postponed until after revolution.

Hubertine Auclert

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Black Feminism / May 10, 1866

“We Are All Bound Up Together”: Rights Beyond the Ballot

At an 1866 women’s rights convention, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper argues that voting rights matter but cannot by themselves secure equality. Black women face racial and gendered exclusion at once, and cannot be told to wait.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / 8 mins

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Black Feminism / May 29, 1851

Address at the Woman’s Rights Convention, Akron (1851)

Truth argues through labor, measuring cups and scripture; the differing 1851 and 1863 accounts also expose power over the public voice of Black women.

Sojourner Truth

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Historical Feminism / July 20, 1848

Declaration of Sentiments

The 1848 declaration links marriage, wages, voting and sexual morality, while revealing hierarchies that persist within the language of universal rights.

Seneca Falls Convention

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Black Feminism / September 21, 1832

‘Why Sit Ye Here and Die?’ / ‘Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall’: Knowledge, Work and Black Women’s Speech

In an 1832 Boston address, Maria W. Stewart uses Christian rhetoric to call Black women and men toward learning and public participation while exposing how racialized labour restricts Black women’s opportunities.

Maria W. Miller Stewart / 8 mins

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Women's Rights / September 5, 1791

Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne: Making the Exclusion in Universal Rights Visible

Olympe de Gouges recasts revolutionary rights language in 1791 to ask why women remain outside citizenship, public speech and legal equality. This reading follows the declaration’s form and its historical limits.

Olympe de Gouges / 8 mins

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Historical Feminism / March 1, 1691

Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz: Learning, the Convent and Women’s Intellectual Authority

In her 1691 reply to Sor Filotea, Sor Juana uses autobiography, theology and classical learning to defend women’s study. This reading keeps the convent setting, her elite position and the argument’s limits in view.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz / 8 mins