The Modern Woman's Rights Movement

Käthe Schirmacher (1865 - 1930)
Translated by Carl Conrad Eckhardt (1878 - 1946)

A history of the international woman’s rights movements originally published in 1905 and updated in 1909; English translation published in 1912. A lot has been written about the woman’s suffrage movements in the United States and England, but this book is unique in that it includes, in addition, chapters on the international woman's rights efforts in countries across North American, Europe, Africa and Asia.

"The facts contained in this volume do not require of me any prefatory observations on the theoretical justification of the woman’s rights movement. From the remotest time man has tried to rule her who ought to be comrade and colleague to him. By virtue of the law of might he generally succeeded. Every protest against this law of might was a “woman’s rights movement.”

"A just and happy relationship of the sexes is dependent upon mutuality, coördination, and the complementary relations of man and woman,—not upon the subordination of woman and the predominance of man. Woman, in her peculiar sphere, is entirely the equal of man in his. The origin of the international woman’s rights movement is found in the world-wide disregard of this elementary truth."
(Summary by J. M. Smallheer with quotes from the preface)

Genre(s): History

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface BettyB
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Play 01 Chapter I. The Germanic Countries Julie Johnsrud
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Play 02 The United States of America, Part 1 Julie Johnsrud
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Play 03 The United States of America, Part 2 Alex
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Play 04 Australia DH2003
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Play 05 Great Britian, Part 1 BerthaMason
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Play 06 Great Britian, Part 2 BerthaMason
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Play 07 Canada Krista Zaleski
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Play 08 South Africa Nathan Ince
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Play 09 The Scandinavian Countries Anna Sofia Andersson
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Play 10 Sweden Anna Sofia Andersson
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Play 11 Finland Anna Sofia Andersson
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Play 12 Norway Anna Sofia Andersson
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Play 13 Denmark Anna Sofia Andersson
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Play 14 The Netherlands Mamacheetah
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Play 15 Switzerland Richa Jain
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Play 16 Germany Richa Jain
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Play 17 Luxemburg mleigh
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Play 18 German Austria Availle
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Play 19 Hungary Availle
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Play 20 Chapter II. The Romance Countries; France BerthaMason
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Play 21 Belgium Ciufi Galeazzi
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Play 22 Italy Ciufi Galeazzi
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Play 23 Spain; Portugal Ciufi Galeazzi
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Play 24 The Latin-American Republics of Central and South America mleigh
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Play 25 Chapter III. The Slavic and Balkan States; Russia Hope Bloom
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Play 26 Czechish Bohemia and Moravia Julie Johnsrud
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Play 27 Galicia Hope Bloom
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Play 28 The Slovene Woman's Rights Movement Hope Bloom
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Play 29 Servia-Bulgaria-Rumania Tatiana Chichilla
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Play 30 Greece mleigh
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Play 31 Chapter IV The Orient and the Far East Mamacheetah
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Play 32 Turkey and Egypt Mamacheetah
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Play 33 Bosnia and Herzegovina; Persia Mamacheetah
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Play 34 India Andy Glover
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Play 35 China mleigh
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Play 36 Japan and Korea Availle
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Play 37 Closing Paragraph and Conclusion BettyB
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