Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions

by Lisa L. Moore (Editor), Joanna Brooks (Editor), Caroline Wigginton (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings together an unprecedented gathering of women and men from the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions. Featuring hard-to-find writings from colonists and colonized, citizens and slaves, religious visionaries and scandal-dogged actresses, these wide-ranging selections present a panorama of the diverse, vibrant world facing women during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. An expansive introduction, along with rich contextual headnotes, makes this an indispensable text for students and scholars of literature, history, and women's and gender studies. With writings from figures like Aphra Behn, Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Toussaint L'Ouverture, to name just a few, Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions recovers the revolutionary moment in which women stepped into a globalizing world and imagined themselves free.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190453947
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
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About the Author

Lisa L. Moore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Joanna Brooks is Associate Professor of English at San Diego State University. Caroline Wigginton is ACLS New Faculty Fellow of American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Ann Marbury Hutchinson (1591 - 1643) Transcripts from the Trial of Ann Hutchison (1637) 2. Anne Dudley Bradstreet (ca. 1612 - 1672) "In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth Of Happy Memory" (1650) "The Author to Her Book" (1678) 3. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (ca. 1623 - 1674) "FEMAL ORATIONS" (1662) 4. Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614 - 1702) Women's Speaking Justified (1666) 5. Bathsua Reginald Makin (1600 - ca. 1675) An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Women (1673) 6. Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) "To the Fair Clarinda" (1688) 7. Mary Astell (1663 - 1731) A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) 8. Pierre Cholenec, S.J. (1641 - 1723) From The Life of Katharine Tegakoüita, First Iroquois Virgin (1696) 9. Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670 - 1723) 10. Martha Fowke Sansom (1689 - 1736) "On being charged with Writing incorrectly" (1710) 11. Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661 - 1720) 12. Anonymous "Cloe to Artemisa" (1720) 13. Elizabeth Magawley "Letter to the Editor of the Philadelphia American Weekly Mercury" (1730/31) 14. Anonymous "Women's Hard Fate" (1733) 15. Anonymous "The Lady's Complaint" (1736) 16. Katherine Garret (Pequot; ? - 1738) The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret (1738) 17. Mary Collier (b. 1679) "The Woman's Labour" (1739) 18. Damma/Marotta/Magdalena 19. Coosaponakeesa/Mary Musgrove Mathews Bosomworth (Creek; ca. 1700 - 1767) 20. Mary Leapor (1722 - 1746) "Man the Monarch" (1748) "An Essay on Woman" (1748) 21. Susanna Wright (1697 - 1784) "To Eliza Norris-at Fairhill" (1750) 22. William Blackstone (1723 - 1780) "Of Husband and Wife" (1765) 23. Hannah Griffitts (1727 - 1817) "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America" (1768) 24. Frances Moore Brooke (1725 - 1789) From The History of Emily Montague (1769) 25. Aspasia Reply to "The Visitant," Number XI (1769) 26. Phillis Wheatley (1753? - 1784) "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth" (1773) Letter to Samson Occom (1774) 27. Mercy Otis Warren (1728 - 1814) Letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay (1774) 28. Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex (1775) 29. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) 30. Abigail Smith Adams (1744 - 1818) Correspondence with John Adams (1776 - 1778) 31. Mary "Molly" Brant/Tekonwatonti/ Konwatsi-Tsiaienni (Mohawk; 1735/6 - 1796) 32. Esther De Berdt Reed (1747 - 1780) The Sentiments of an American Woman (1780) 33. Nancy Ward/Nanye'Hi (Cherokee; 1738? - 1824) Speeches (1781 - 1787) 34. Women of Wilmington Petition (1782) 35. Belinda (b. about 1713) Petitions for Slave Reparations (1782, 1787) 36. Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820) Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms (1784) "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790) 37. Anonymous Petition of the Young Ladies (1787) 38. Benjamin Rush (1746 - 1813) From Thoughts Upon Female Education (1787) 39. Hannah More (1745 - 1833) Slavery: A Poem (1788) 40. Anonymous 41. Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757 - 1834) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) 42. Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham (1731 - 1791) 43. Pauline Léon (1758 - ?) 44. Olympe de Gouges (1748 - 1793) 45. Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres (1771 - 1801) 46. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) From A Vindication on the Rights of Woman (1792) 47. Sarah Pierce (1767 - 1852) "Verses to Abigail Smith" (1792) 48. Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736 - 1801) Letter to Julia Stockton Rush on Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (ca. 1793) 49. Priscilla Mason "Oration" (1793) 50. Anonymous 51. 1Elizabeth Hart Thwaites (1772 - 1833) Letter from Elizabeth Hart to a Friend (1794) 52. Anonymous "Rights of Woman" (1795) 53. Helen Maria Williams (1762 - 1827) From Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795) 54. Anna Seward (1747 - 1809) "To the Right Honourable, Lady Eleanor Butler" (1796) "To Miss Ponsonby" (1796) "To Honora Sneyd" (1773, pb. 1799) "Elegy, Written at the Sea-Side" (1799) 55. Mary Darby Robinson (1758 - 1800) From A Letter to the Women of England (1799) 56. François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture (ca. 1743 - 1803) 57. Deborah Sampson Gannett (1760 - 1827) Addr[e]ss, Delivered with Applause, at the Federal-Street Theatre, Boston (1802) 58. Sarah Pogson Smith (1774 - 1870) From The Female Enthusiast (1807) 59. Leonora Sansay (1773 - ?) Appendix of Images

Editorial Reviews

"Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions marshals an impressive range of source material to illuminate the early history of feminism in the North Atlantic world. The transnational framework knits together women's voices that span race, class and region. These sources are a comprehensive exploration of female experience in the age of revolutions." —Susan Branson, Syracuse University

"Revolutionary in conception and content, Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions transcends narrow definitions of nation and identity to recover the voices-many not heard since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-of the disfranchised majority of people-women and men, European and other-claiming their rights to freedom, equality and citizenship during the 'Age of Revolutions.'" —Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland

"Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions provides a fascinating group of texts that force us to reconsider the origins of western feminism, the changing status of women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the impact of revolutionary movements on women's status." —Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University

"An important, revelatory collection...The lucid introduction lays out the theme of transatlantic feminisms and manages to be both a wonderful introduction to the field and an in-depth analysis of how the "age of revolutions" included women...Provide[s] clear notes, excellent short introductions to each piece, and a wonderful collection of images...Essential." —Choice

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