50 Feminist Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die

by Jane Addams, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen

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If Men Were Seeking the Franchise - Jane Addams
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Woman Question - Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling
Introduction to Woman and Socialism - August Bebel
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Speech to Congress - Carrie Chapman Catt
The Crisis - Carrie Chapman Catt
The Awakening & Other Short Stories - Kate Chopin
Now We Can Begin - Crystal Eastman
Women and Economics - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
With Her in Ourland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What Diantha Did - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Odd Women - George Gissing
Woman Suffrage- Emma Goldman
The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation - Emma Goldman
The Traffic in Women - Emma Goldman
The Hypocrisy of Puritanism - Emma Goldman
Mariage and love - Emma Goldman
Sultana's Dream - Roquia Sakhawat Hussain
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Sturdy Oak - Elizabeth Jordan
The Late Friedrich Engels and the Woman Question - Eleanor Marx
The Gotha Congress - Eleanor Marx
Exchange with Bax - Eleanor Marx
The Everlasting Female Again - Eleanor Marx
Women Are People - Alice Duer Miller
Womanhood Suffrage - Dora B. Montefiore
Freedom or Death - Emmeline Pankhurst
The Fundamental Principle of a Republic - Anna Howard Shaw
Woman and Labour - Olive Schreiner
Mrs Swanwick on Women - Helena Swanwick
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
A Call to Our Women Comrades - Clara Zetkin
Social Democracy and Woman Suffrage - Clara Zetkin
Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism be Victorious - Clara Zetkin

Genres: Feminism

5877 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 2, 2018

About the author

American social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams in 1889 founded Hull house, a care and education center for the poor of Chicago, and in 1931 shared the Nobel Prize for peace.

Her mother died when she was two years old in 1862, and her father and later a stepmother reared her. She graduated from Rockford female seminary in 1881, among the first students to take a course of study equivalent to that of men at other institutions. Her father, whom she admired tremendously, died in that same year, 1881.

Jane Addams attended medical college of woman in Pennsylvania but, probably due to her ill health and chronic back pain, left. She toured Europe from 1883 to 1885 and then lived in Baltimore until 1887 but figure out not what she wanted with her education and skills.

In 1888, on a visit to England with her Rockford classmate Ellen Gates Starr, Jane Addams visited Toynbee Settlement Hall and London's East End. Jane Addams and Ellen Starr planned to start an American equivalent of that settlement house. After their return they chose Hull mansion, a building which had, though originally built at the edge of the city, become surrounded by an immigrant neighborhood and had been used as a warehouse.

Using an experimental model of reform -- trying solutions to see what would work -- and committed to full- and part-time residents to keep in touch with the neighborhood's real needs, Jane Addams built Hull-House into an institution known worldwide. Addams wrote articles, lectured widely and did most of the fund-raising personally and served on many social work, social welfare and settlement house boards and commissions.

Jane Addams also became involved in wider efforts for social reform, including housing and sanitation issues, factory inspection, rights of immigrants, women and children, pacifism and the 8-hour day. She served as a Vice President of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1911-1914.

In 1912, Jane Addams campaigned for the Progressive Party and its presidential candidate, Teddy Roosevelt. She worked with the Peace Party, helped found and served as president (1919-1935) of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

In 1931 Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Nicholas Murray Butler, but her health was too fragile to attend the European ceremonies to accept the prize. She was the second woman to be awarded that honor.

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