Reply #6: Eighty Years and More--Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

[vixengrl]

I've never really looked into the history of feminism until really recently. I finished Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman not long ago. I wouldn't mind if anyone wanted to point me towards some other meaningful related literature. Also in my "reading pile", Sheila Rowbotham's Dreamers of a New Day: Woman who Invented the Twentieth Century. I think this one would be of great interest to any progressive for an historical perspective that I really think conservatives want us to lose, and want to expunge our kids from learning, and want to roll back all of--I genuinely think it isn't just abortion as choice that's at stake, but contraception, education, sufferage (for any 'undesireable' this time, not just women being disenfranchised). Organization, physical courage, and mutual education about our various stories, needs, and reassertion of our requirements for a successful and functional democracy, all this must be part of the taking of our personal business back into the political street.

It's pretty fascinating reading.