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Abolitionist and women's rights campaigner [39] 1700–1799: Judith Sargent Murray: United States: 1751: 1820: Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes [40] 1700–1799: John Neal: United States: 1793: 1876: Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer [41] [42] 1700–1799: Sarah ...
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
"What Became of God the Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity", Elaine H. Pagels (1976) [448] "What is Socialist Feminism?", Barbara Ehrenreich (1976) [449] When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone (1976) Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy (1976) Women, Money and Power, Phyllis Chesler with Emily Jane Goodman (1976)
Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd (1827–1909), American poet [2] Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet, youngest of three Brontë writers; Alice Cary (1820–1871), American poet, sister of Phoebe Cary; Anna Olcott Commelin (1841–1924), American writer and poet; Julia Pleasants Creswell (1827–1886), American poet, novelist
Mothers of the Novel is divided into three parts. Part I treats a series of seventeenth-century women writers, only some of whom would have been familiar to most readers in 1986: Aphra Behn (1640–1689), Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), Anne Clifford (1590–1676), Anne Fanshawe (1625–1680), Eliza Haywood (1693–1756), [1] Lucy Hutchinson (1618–1681), Delarivière Manley (1663 –1724 ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people. It includes American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:18th-century American men
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]