Oppression of women

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 4.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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Kennedy, Florynce. "The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq." Ms. Magazine, Mar. 1973.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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Astell, Mary. Reflections Upon Marriage. London: W. Wilkin, 1706.

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Astell, Mary. "Some Reflections on Marriage." Astell: Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.

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Stendhal. De L'Amour [On Love]. Paris: Pierre Mongie, 1822, ch. 56.

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Stendhal. Love, translated by Gilbert Sale and Suzanne Sale. Penguin Classics, 1975, ch. 56.

Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed

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Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1970, introduction.

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James, Henry. "The Portrait of a Lady." The Atlantic Monthly/Macmillan's Magazine, 1880–81.

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James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady, edited by Roger Luckhurst. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. 7 May 1776.

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Adams, Abigail. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

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Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Screen Partners, 1991.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.

Robin Morgan

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Morgan, Robin. Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist. Random House, 1977, ch. 4, sec. 2.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 27.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 27.

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Brennan, William J., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Frontiero v. Richardson. United States Reports, vol. 411, 14 May 1973, pp. 677-692. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/411/677/.

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French, Marilyn. The Women's Room. Simon & Schuster, 1977, ch. 19.

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Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen, 1 Oct. 1975.

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The Quran. c. 630, 4:34.

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The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 4.

I was told that desire for learning in women was against the will of God.

Mary Butts

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Butts, Mary. The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns. London: Metheun & Co., 1937.

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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Thaxter. 15 Feb. 1778.

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Adams, Abigail. "Letter to John Thaxter, 1778." The Adams Papers: The Adams Family Correspondence Volumes 1 & 2, edited by L. H. Butterfield. Anthenum, 1965.