The Modern Woman's Rights Movement
Käthe Schirmacher
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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 |