Essential Historical Writings of Feminism

Many of the works, long out of print or forgotten in what Miriam Schneir describes as a male-dominated literary tradition, are finally brought out of obscurity and into the light of contemporary analysis and criticism.

Included are more than forty selections, covering 150 years of writing on women''s struggle for freedom - from Mary Wollstonecraft and George Sand to Emma Goldman and Clara Zetkiln.