Introduction / Anna Julia Cooper -- Woman's cause is one and universal / Anne Hutchinson -- Vote and Voyce / Margaret Brent -- A Peace Treaty / Nanye'hi -- Salutory Oration / Priscilla Mason -- Life as a Revolutionary War Soldier / Deborah Sampson Gannett -- Improving Female Education / Emma Willard -- New-Harmony Hall / Frances Wright -- Farewell Address To Her Friends in the City of Boston / Maria Miller Stewart -- At Pennsylvania Hall / Angelina Grimk?e -- Discourse on Woman / Lucretia Mott -- Ain't I a Woman? ; I Am a Woman's Rights / Sojourner Truth -- Disappointment Is the Lot of Woman / Lucy Stone -- Rather Die than Go Back / Jane Johnson -- Woman's Rights in a New Aspect / Julia Branch -- Why Slavery is Still Rampant in the Land / Sarah Parker Remond -- Why Colored Men Should Enlist / Anna Dickinson -- Memphis Riots and Massacres / Frances Thompson -- Testimony on Civil War Prison Conditions / Clara Barton -- We are all bound up together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Is it a crime for a US citizen to vote? / Susan B. Anthony -- The need of women in science / Maria Mitchell -- Plight of the Ponca Indians / Susette La Flesche -- Testimony on Indian affairs / Sarah Winnemucca -- Solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lynch law in all its phases / Ida B. Wells -- Public defender rights of persons accused of crime / Clara Shortridge Foltz -- The rights of my people / Ka'iulani -- Woman's cause is one and universal / Anna Julia Cooper -- I question America / Fannie Lou Hamer -- The chain-gang system / Selena Sloan Butler -- Is God responsible? / Caroline Bartlett Crane -- How the sisters are hindered from helping / Nannie Helen Burroughs -- Effect of the hatchet / Carrie Nation -- Agitation : the greatest factor for progress / Mary Harris "Mother" Jones -- Dance of the future / Isadora Duncan -- What it means to be colored in the capital of the United States / Mary Church Terrell -- Plea for the Spanish language / Aurora Lucero-White Lea -- To the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire / Rose Schneiderman -- What feminism means to me / Crystal Eastman -- China's submerged half / Mabel Ping-Hua Lee -- Appeal to the women voters of the west / Inez Milholland -- On women's rights and wartime service / Jeannette Rankin -- Address to President Calvin Coolidge / Ruth Muskrat -- Gagged for free speech / Margaret Sanger -- Eyes of the blind / Helen Keller -- Can the machine pull us out? / Lillian Gilbreth -- Modern coup d'etat / Dorothy Thompson -- Civil liberties : the individual and the community / Eleanor Roosevelt -- America and the Kremlin / Clare Boothe Luce -- My democratic credo / Helen Gahagan Douglas -- Silence the artist / Katharine Hepburn -- Homecoming day / Josephine Baker -- The right way is not a moderate way / Lillian Smith -- Of man and the stream of time / Rachel Carson -- The Negro woman in the quest for equality / Pauli Murray -- I question America / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Summon courage / Bina Venkataraman. Speech at Capitol rally / Dolores Huerta -- Introducing the E.R.A. / Shirley Chisholm -- Discrimination against women / Patsy Mink -- Farewell speech to NOW / Betty Friedan -- Living the revolution / Gloria Steinem -- I am someone's neighbor / Madeline Davis -- Opening statement on the Articles of Impeachment of President Richard Nixon / Barbara Jordan -- Wartime internment / Grayce Uyehara -- Becoming disabled / Judy Heumann -- Portia's progress / Sandra Day O'Connor -- A whisper of AIDS / Mary Fisher -- Women's rights are human rights / Hillary Clinton -- Animals in translation / Temple Grandin -- House built by slaves / Michelle Obama -- Time's up / Oprah Winfrey -- Summon courage / Bina Venkataraman.
Summary:
"The first anthology to put a spotlight on American women speakers from 1637 to the present and explain how each contributed to the making of the nation. Women have not been silent in US history, but you'd hardly know it from the history books. Speaking While Female challenges long-held notions by showing that in every period, at every historic juncture, women have contributed decisively to American ideals, institutions, and culture by stepping up and delivering powerful speeches, sermons, lectures, and testimony. Even when denied access to education, excluded from political life and the professions, and forbidden to speak from the pulpit, women have still found ways to come forward and use their public voices. This ... collection assembles speeches by 75 American women, some whose names are recognized and others who are barely known. Some of the speeches in this collection have never been published; others not in more than a century. Arranged chronologically, from the Puritan era to the present, they demonstrate the crucial role women have played in the nation's long struggle to live up to its ideals"--From publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.