Women's equality

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Anthony, Susan B. The Revolution. 15 Jan. 1868.

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Anthony, Susan B. “Champion of Her Sex.” Interviewed by Nellie Bly. New York World, 2 Feb. 1896.

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Anthony, Susan B. “Champion of Her Sex.” The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush 1895 to 1906, edited by Ann D. Gordon. Vol. 6, Rutgers University Press, 2013.

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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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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Adkins v. Children's Hospital. United States Reports, vol. 261, 9 Apr. 1923, pp. 567-571. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.

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Anthony, Susan B. Speech made after she was arrested for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. 5 Nov. 1872, Rochester, NY, USA.

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Anthony, Susan B. “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage." 17 June 1873, Rochester, NY, USA.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 4.

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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. 4.

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Ginsburg, Ruth Bader. "Ginsburg: Court Needs Another Woman." Interviewed by Joan Biskupic. USA Today, 5 May 2009, usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-05-05-ruthginsburg_N.htm.

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Anthony, Susan B. The Revolution. 8 Oct. 1969.

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Toynbee, Polly. Guardian. 19 Jan. 1987.

We don't want so much to see a female Einstein become an assistant professor. We want a woman schlemiel to get promoted as quickly as a male schlemiel.

Bella Abzug

"Schlemiel" is a Yiddish term meaning, roughly, an unlucky, incompetent or foolish person.

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Abzug, Bella. US News and World Report. 25 Apr. 1977.

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Mott, Lucretia. "Discourse on Woman." 17 Dec. 1849, Philadelphia's Assembly Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lecture.

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Mott, Lucretia. "Lucretia Mott: Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?" Great Speeches by American Women, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2007.