Contains an assortment of important speeches given by American women from 1850 to the present, with contributors including Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi.
Content Note
Ain't I a woman? (1851) / Sojourner Truth -- Why should not woman seek to be a reformer? (1854) / Lucretia Mott -- On behalf of the Woman Suffrage Amendment (1890) / Susan B. Anthony -- The solitude of self (1892) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Southern horror : lynch law in all its phases (1892) / Ida Wells-Barnett -- The progress of fifty years (1893) / Lucy Stone -- A modern Lear (1896) / Jane Addams -- Appeal to the cause of miners in the Paint Creek District (1912) / Mary Harris "Mother" Jones -- Address to the jury (1917) / Emma Goldman -- A moral necessity for birth control (1921) / Margaret Sanger -- A century of progress of negro women (1933) / Mary McLeod Bethune -- On the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Declaration of conscience (1950) / Margaret Chase Smith -- People and peace, not profits and war (1969) / Shirley Chisholm -- Vice presidential nomination acceptance address (1984) / Geraldine Ferraro -- Democratic National Convention keynote address (1988) / Ann Richards -- A whisper of AIDS (1992) / Mary Fisher -- A 21st century feminism (2002) / Gloria Steinem -- The new feminism (2004) / Jane Fonda -- Remarks on the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (2006) / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Speech upon her election as Speaker of the House (2007) / Nancy Pelosi.