Emily Dickinson on sex, desire, and “the chapter . . . in the night." Emma Goldman against the tyranny of marriage. Ida B. Wells against lynching. Anna Julia Cooper on Black American womanhood. Frances Willard on riding a bicycle. Perhaps the first of its kind, Radicals is a two-volume collection of writings by American women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with special attention paid to the voices of Black, Indigenous, and Asian American women.
In Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory, selections span from early works like Sarah Mapps Douglass's anti-slavery appeal “A Mother's Love” (1832) and Maria W. Stewart's “Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall” (1833), to Zitkala-Sa's memories in “The Land of Red Apples” (1921) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's moving final essay “The Right to Die” (1935). In between, readers will discover a whole host of vibrant and challenging lesser-known texts that are rarely collected today. Some, indeed, have been out of print for more than a century.
Unique among anthologies of American literature, Radicals undoes such silences by collecting the underrepresented, the uncategorizable, the unbowed—powerful writings by American women of genius and audacity who looked toward, and wrote toward, what Charlotte Perkins Gilman called “a lifted world.”
Author(s): Zachary Turpin (editor) Meredith Stabel (editor)
Series: Radicals
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 288
Tags: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, American Literature, Feminism, Women's Writing
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Katha Pollitt
Introduction by Meredith Stabel and Zachary Turpin
A Note on the Text
Buffalo Bird Woman (Waheenee / Maaxiiriwia)
From Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden, As Recounted by Maxi’diwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman) of the Hidatsa Indian Tribe (ca. 1839–1932) (1917)
Jennie Collins
Woman’s Suffrage (1871)
Anna Julia Cooper
Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (1892)
Lucy Delaney
From From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (1891)
Emily Dickinson
Letters to Judge Otis Lord (ca. 1878)
Sarah Mapps Douglass
To a Friend (1832)
A Mother’s Love (1832)
Sarah Jane Woodson Early
Address to the Youth (1866)
Zilpha Elaw
From Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, and Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American Female of Colour; Together with some Account of the Great Religious Revivals in America (1846)
Julia A. J. Foote
From A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch (1879)
Margaret Fuller
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Maternity Benefits and Reformers (1916)
What Is Feminism? (1916)
From The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935)
The Right to Die (1935)
Emma Goldman
A New Declaration of Independence (1909)
Minorities versus Majorities (1910)
Marriage and Love (1910)
Charlotte Forten Grimké
From The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (1854)
Frances E. W. Harper
We Are All Bound Up Together (1866)
Woman’s Political Future (1894)
Edmonia Goodelle Highgate
New Orleans Correspondence (1866)
On Horse Back—Saddle-Dash, No. 1 (1866)
Harriet Jacobs
Letter from a Fugitive Slave (1853)
Rebecca Cox Jackson
From Gifts of Power (ca. 1830–1864)
Belva Lockwood
The Growth of Peace Principles (1895)
Louisa Picquet
From Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: Or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (1861)
Ora Eddleman Reed
Indian Tales between Pipes (1906)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
An Open Letter to the Educational League of Georgia (1889)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
Introduction to History of Woman Suffrage (1889)
Maria W. Stewart
An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston, February 27, 1833
Lucy Stone
From Lucy Stone (1850)
Marriage of Lucy Stone under Protest (1855)
Mary Church Terrell
Lynching from a Negro’s Point of View (1904)
What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States (1907)
Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman
The Negro among Anglo-Saxon Poets (1898)
Sojourner Truth
From Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave (1850)
Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 29, 1851
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
From Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
Frances Willard
From A Wheel within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle, with Some Reflections by the Way (1895)
From Do Everything: A Handbook for the World’s White Ribboners (1895)
Sarah Winnemucca
From Life among the Piutes, Their Wrongs and Claims (1883)
Victoria Woodhull
To the Women of the South (1870)
Zitkala-Sa
From The School Days of an Indian Girl (1900)
From An Indian Teacher among Indians (1900)
Acknowledgments
