This anthology publishes key documents in the history of American feminism that are currently only available in extract form or in archives. The collection also contains anti-feminist writings, by both men and women.

This anthology publishes key documents in the history of American feminism that are, as at 2002, only available in extract form or in archives. This set spans from the Seneca Fall Convention in 1848 to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women's suffrage in 1920 and includes works of well-known women's campaigners such as: Angelina and Sarah M. Grimke, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Fuller, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Carrie Chapman Catt, Jane Addams, Matilda Gage and others. The collection also contains anti-feminist writings, by both men and women, including socio-medical writings and examples from health manuals.

Volume I: Suffrage Edited and Introduced by Janet
Beer Janet Beer Introduction: The Woman Suffrage Movement in America - 1848-1920 1. The First Convention: Seneca Falls, including the Declaration of Sentiments [1848] 2. Lucretia Mott Discourse on Woman, Philadelphia
[T.B. Peterson, 1850] 3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Worcester [1850] and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse [1852] Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1852] 4. Matilda Gage to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse, Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1852] 5. Theodore Parker A Sermon of
the Public Function of Women, Women's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1853] 6. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Colored People in America, from The Colored People in America: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects Philadelphia [1857]
7. Sojourner Truth Address to the American Equal Rights Association [1867] 8.
Hamilton Wilcox Women are Voters! New York Suffrage Law [John W. Lovell Co., 1885] 9. Angelina French Newman Woman Suffrage in Utah [Government Print Office, 1886] 10. Henry Blair Woman Suffrage Speech to the Senate [1886] 11. Clara Benwick Colby The Ballot and the Bullet Theory The Woman's Tribune [Editor, 1883-86] 12. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Unsolved Problems in Woman Suffrage, reprinted from The Forum [Forum Publishing Company, 1887] 13. F.G. Adams The Women's Vote in Kansas [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1888] 14. Olympia Brown Woman's Suffrage a Political Necessity, abstract of address before the Judiciary Committee
of the House of Representatives, [January 28, 1889] 15. Lucy Stone Questions for Remonstrants [American Woman
Suffrage Association, 1889] 16. Olive Schreiner Three Dreams in a Desert [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889] 17. Various Authors, The Elective Franchise [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889] 18. Ednah D. Cheney Municipal Suffrage for Women [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889] 19. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Straight Lines or Oblique Lines? [American Woman Suffrage
Association, 1893] 20. Henry Blackwell Objections
to Woman Suffrage Answered [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1896] 21. Katherine A.G. Patterson, Helen G. Ecob et al Colorado Speaks for Herself [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1897] 22. Carrie Chapman Catt, Florence Kelley and Evelyn W. Ordway How the Women of New Orleans Discovered their Wish to Vote [Political Science
Study Series, Vol. V. No. 4, 1900] 23. William M. Salter What is the Real Emancipation of Woman? [Woman Suffrage Association, 1902] 24. Marion B. Schlesinger, Mary
A.E.M. Buckminster, and Mary Leavens Arguments in