The Modern Woman's Rights Movement


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A history of the international woman’s rights movements originally published in 1905 and updated in 1909; English translation published in 1912. A lot has been written about the woman’s suffrage movements in the United States and England, but this book is unique in that it includes, in addition, chapters on the international woman's rights efforts in countries across North American, Europe, Africa and Asia.

"The facts contained in this volume do not require of me any prefatory observations on the theoretical justification of the woman’s rights movement. From the remotest time man has tried to rule her who ought to be comrade and colleague to him. By virtue of the law of might he generally succeeded. Every protest against this law of might was a “woman’s rights movement.”

"A just and happy relationship of the sexes is dependent upon mutuality, coördination, and the complementary relations of man and woman,—not upon the subordination of woman and the predominance of man. Woman, in her peculiar sphere, is entirely the equal of man in his. The origin of the international woman’s rights movement is found in the world-wide disregard of this elementary truth."
(Summary by J. M. Smallheer with quotes from the preface)
(7 hr 28 min)

Chapters

Preface 8:50 Read by BettyB
Chapter I. The Germanic Countries 1:38 Read by Julie Johnsrud
The United States of America, Part 1 32:33 Read by Julie Johnsrud
The United States of America, Part 2 27:52 Read by Alex
Australia 21:05 Read by DH2003
Great Britian, Part 1 31:56 Read by BerthaMason
Great Britian, Part 2 27:00 Read by BerthaMason
Canada 5:54 Read by Krista Zaleski
South Africa 3:08 Read by Nathan Ince
The Scandinavian Countries 3:43 Read by Anna Sofia Andersson
Sweden 13:53 Read by Anna Sofia Andersson
Finland 12:15 Read by Anna Sofia Andersson
Norway 10:45 Read by Anna Sofia Andersson
Denmark 7:39 Read by Anna Sofia Andersson
The Netherlands 15:02 Read by Mamacheetah
Switzerland 17:35 Read by Richa Jain
Germany 22:43 Read by Richa Jain
Luxemburg 2:41 Read by mleigh
German Austria 18:03 Read by Availle
Hungary 9:55 Read by Availle
Chapter II. The Romance Countries; France 26:21 Read by BerthaMason
Belgium 8:28 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Italy 15:44 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Spain; Portugal 9:35 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
The Latin-American Republics of Central and South America 5:24 Read by mleigh
Chapter III. The Slavic and Balkan States; Russia 22:42 Read by Hope Bloom
Czechish Bohemia and Moravia 4:16 Read by Julie Johnsrud
Galicia 6:38 Read by Hope Bloom
The Slovene Woman's Rights Movement 1:42 Read by Hope Bloom
Servia-Bulgaria-Rumania 7:42 Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Greece 6:18 Read by mleigh
Chapter IV The Orient and the Far East 1:42 Read by Mamacheetah
Turkey and Egypt 9:25 Read by Mamacheetah
Bosnia and Herzegovina; Persia 2:52 Read by Mamacheetah
India 6:43 Read by Andy Glover
China 8:42 Read by mleigh
Japan and Korea 5:39 Read by Availle
Closing Paragraph and Conclusion 4:18 Read by BettyB