Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller

Author: Charles Capper

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1994-11-03

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 0199762341

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With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the firsthand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life--her identity as a female intellectual--and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's "private years": her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the "private" life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation.

Margaret Fuller, an American Romantic Life
Margaret Fuller, an American Romantic Life

Author: Charles Capper

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 9780199852703

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Charles Capper illuminates Fuller's 'public years', focusing on her struggles to establish her identity as an influential intellectual woman in the Romantic Age.

Spirit Leads, The
Spirit Leads, The

Author:

Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Published:

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1558965866

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Commemorates the bicentennial of Margaret Fuller's birth with a dynamic collection of excerpts from her writings. Includes an overview of Fuller's life and legacy and a list of recommended resources. A contemporary of Emerson and Thoreau and a leading public intellectual of her time, Margaret Fuller, a lifelong Unitarian, has yet to be elevated by history to the status of her peers. But her impact on the leading Transcendentalists of the day as a religious radical, political revolutionary, social reformer and forceful advocate of women's rights remains significant, even today. In addition to serving as editor of the Transcendentalist magazine, the Dial, and writing her manifesto Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Fuller was a transnational, cosmopolitan figure whose work and influence transcend the provincialism of New England and nineteenth-century American culture.

Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

Author: Jana L. Argersinger

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0820343390

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The first large-scale, collaborative study of women's voices and their vital role in the American transcendentalist movement. Many of its seventeen distinguished scholars work from newly recovered archives, and all offer fresh readings of understudied topics and texts, shedding light on female contributions.

Women's Rights in the United States [4 volumes]
Women's Rights in the United States [4 volumes]

Author: Tiffany K. Wayne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-12-09

Total Pages: 1468

ISBN-13: 1610692152

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A comprehensive encyclopedia tracing the history of the women's rights movement in the United States from the American Revolution to the present day. Few realize that the origin of the discussion on women's rights emerged out of the anti-slavery movement of the 19th century, and that suffragists were active in the peace and labor movements long after the right to vote was granted. Thus began the confluence of activism in our country, where the rights of women both followed—and led—the social and political discourse in America. Through 4 volumes and more than 800 entries, editor Tiffany K. Wayne, with advising editor Lois Banner, examine the issues, people, and events of women's activism, from the early period of American history to the present time. This comprehensive reference not only traces the historical evolution of the movement, but also covers current issues affecting women, such as reproductive freedom, political participation, pay equity, violence against women, and gay civil rights.

Lives and Times
Lives and Times

Author: Blaine T. Browne

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2010-05-16

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 144220558X

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Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed for use in American history courses, with each volume consisting of thirteen chapters in which two significant individuals are examined in the context of a major historical issue or event. Written in a narrative style, this text offers students new and intriguing perspectives about major issues in the nation's political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history.

A Revolutionary Conscience
A Revolutionary Conscience

Author: Paul E. Teed

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2012-08-16

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0761859640

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Theodore Parker was one of the most controversial theologians and social activists in pre-Civil War America. A vocal critic of traditional Christian thought and a militant opponent of American slavery, he led a huge congregation of religious dissenters in the very heart of Boston, Massachusetts, during the 1840s and 1850s. This book argues that Parker’s radical vision and contemporary appeal stemmed from his abiding faith in the human conscience and in the principles of the American revolutionary tradition. A leading figure in Boston’s resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law, Parker became a key supporter of John Brown’s dramatic but ill-fated raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859. Propelled by a revolutionary conscience, Theodore Parker stood out as one of the most fearless religious reformers and social activists of his generation.

Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World [2 volumes]
Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World [2 volumes]

Author: Tiffany K. Wayne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-10-17

Total Pages: 805

ISBN-13: 0313345813

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Collecting more than 200 sources in the global history of feminism, this anthology supplies an insightful record of the resistance to patriarchy throughout human history and around the world. From writings by Enheduana in ancient Mesopotamia (2350 BCE) to the present-day manifesto of the Association of Women for Action and Research in Singapore, Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History excerpts more than 200 feminist primary source documents from Africa to the Americas to Australia. Serving to depict "feminism" as much broader—and older—than simply the modern struggle for political rights and equality, this two-volume work provides a more comprehensive and varied record of women's resistance cross-culturally and throughout history. The author's goal is to showcase a wide range of writers, thinkers, and organizations in order to document how resistance to patriarchy has been at the center of social, political, and intellectual history since the infancy of human civilization. This work addresses feminist ideas expressed privately through poetry, letters, and autobiographies, as well as the public and political aspects of women's rights movements.

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers
Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

Author: Lori J. Marso

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1317192761

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The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one hundred and two thinkers collected in these pages, as each author is a feminist thinker, too: scholars, writers, poets, and activists, well-established and emerging, old and young and in-between. These feminists speak the languages of art, politics, literature, education, classics, gender studies, film, queer theory, global affairs, political theory, science fiction, African American studies, sociology, American studies, geography, history, philosophy, poetry, and psychoanalysis. Speaking in all these diverse tongues, conversations made possible by feminist thinking are introduced and engaged. Key figures include: Simone de Beauvoir Doris Lessing Toni Morrison Cindy Sherman Octavia Butler Marina Warner Elizabeth Cady Stanton Chantal Akerman Betty Friedan Audre Lorde Margaret Fuller Sappho Adrienne Rich Each entry is supported by a list of the thinker’s major works, along with further reading suggestions. An ideal resource for students and academics alike, this text will appeal to all those interested in the fields of gender studies, women’s studies and women’s history and politics.