Victoria C Woodhull

Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull

Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics
Herausgeber: Carpenter, Cari M

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Salish Kootenai College Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780803216471
• ISBN-10: 0803216475
• Artikelnr.: 28129917

Autorenporträt

Cari M. Carpenter is an assistant professor of English at West Virginia University and the author of Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  
List of Illustrations  
Note on the Text 
Introduction     
1. The Woodhull Manifesto    
2. Killing No Murder   
3. A Page of American History: Constitution of the United States of the
World
4. The Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull  
5. Constitutional Equality   
6. The New Rebellion: The Great Secession Speech of Victoria C.
Woodhull     
7. My Dear Mrs. Bladen 
8. Correspondence between the Victoria League and Victoria C. Woodhull: The
First Candidate for the Next Presidency
9. My Dear Mrs. Mott   
10. "And the Truth Shall Make You Free": A Speech on the Principles of
Social Freedom    
11. A Speech on the Impending Revolution 
12. The Correspondence of the Equal Rights Party     
13. Speech of Victoria C. Woodhull 
14. The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case
15. The Naked Truth; or, the Situation Reviewed!     
16. Dear Lucretia Mott 
17. Reformation or Revolution, Which? or, Behind the Political Scenes  
18. The Spirit World: A Highly Interesting Communication from Mrs. Victoria
C. Woodhull  
19. The Elixir of Life; or, Why Do We Die? An Oration
20. The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery    
21. Tried as by Fire; or, the True and the False, Socially 
22. The Garden of Eden; or, Paradise Lost and Found  
23. Stirpiculture; or, the Scientific Propagation of the Human Race    
24. The Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit
25. I Am the Daughter of Time
26. Woman Suffrage in the United States  
Notes
Bibliography     
Index