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Mary Wollstonecraft (Shelley) Home Page
Source: Romantic Circles Web Sites
Country: United States
E-mail: swilson@udel.edu

A rich wellspring of information on the woman that many consider to be the mother of individualist feminism, if not of feminism itself/herself -- Mary Wollstonecraft. Maintained with love.

Catherine Macaulay (1731-1791)
Source: Sunshine for Women
Country: United States

A contemporary of Mary Wollstonecraft, Catherine Macaulay emphasized the education of women. She was more radical than Mary Wollstonecraft, who thought women should become educated mothers. Macaulay wanted women to compete in a man's world, just as she competed as an historian.

One woman's observations
Source: Webfoot
Author: Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
Country: United States

"Duckie" starts with the observation, "Being a woman in engineering industry is different from being a man in engineering industry. Not better, not worse, but different." She then launches into a fascinating analysis of how the two sexes interact.

If I can't dance...
Source: Sunsite
Country: United States

Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution." Or did she? Read the actual text from which this famous sentiment has been taken.

Marie Stopes -- sexual freedom pioneer
Source: Think Bomb
Country: United Kingdom

Once considered one of the most famous women in the world, Marie Stopes is now largely forgotten. Yet she is one of the key historical figure in the development of sexual custom and rights in the modern era, perhaps exceeding in practical importance a figure such as Freud.

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