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1081

Articles · Aug 1888

Marriage

By Mona Caird

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

Family Liberation
Marriage Critique
Women's Economic Rights

1082

Books · Jan 1887

The High-Caste Hindu Woman

By Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati

Published in Philadelphia in 1887, Pandita Ramabai's English-language book examines childhood, marriage, and widowhood for high-caste Hindu women, and makes self-reliance, education, and locally grounded women teachers central to reform.

Women's History
Women's Rights
Feminist Education

1083

Articles · Jan 1879

Social and Political Equality of Women and Men

By Hubertine Auclert

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

Political Participation
Labor Rights
Social Movements

1084

Articles · May 1866

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

By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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.

Black Feminism
Historical Feminism
Women's Rights

1085

Books · Jan 1861

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

By Harriet A. Jacobs

Writing as Linda Brent, Harriet Jacobs shows how slavery governed Black women's bodies, motherhood, and family - and how concealment, labor, and authorship became means of survival and testimony.

Women's History
Black Feminism
Race and Gender

1086

Articles · May 1851

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

By Sojourner Truth

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

Black Feminism
Race and Gender
Women's Rights

1087

Books · Jan 1850

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By Sojourner Truth (dictated); Olive Gilbert (transcriber)

This 1850 dictated narrative follows Truth’s escape from slavery in New York, her pursuit of a son illegally sold south, and her efforts to claim authority through religious interpretation and public speech.

Women's History
Black Feminism
Race and Gender

1088

Articles · Jul 1848

Declaration of Sentiments

By Seneca Falls Convention

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

Historical Feminism
Women's Rights
Legal Equality

1089

Articles · Sep 1832

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

By Maria W. Miller Stewart

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.

Black Feminism
Historical Feminism
Education Equality

1090

Books · Jan 1792

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft links girls’ education to reason, virtue, sexual morality, and political participation, challenging the social training that makes women’s dependence appear natural.

First Wave Feminism
Education Equality
Legal Equality

1091

Articles · Sep 1791

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

By Olympe de Gouges

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.

Women's Rights
Citizenship
Political Participation

1092

Articles · Mar 1691

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

By Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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.

Historical Feminism
Women's Literature
Education Equality