Fuller Ossoli, Margaret et al. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 1852, represents the earliest extended biographical construction of one of nineteenth-century America’s most prominent feminist intellectuals and reformers. Published two years after Fuller’s death in a shipwreck off Fire Island alongside her husband and child, the work became the best-selling.....

Stone, Lucy. Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Pitman, dated January 6, 1885, documents active organizational labor within the American woman suffrage movement during the final decade before national consolidation. Written from Dorchester at a moment when suffrage leadership was negotiating strategy and institutional direction, the letter records Stone’s engagement with.....

Pincus, Gregory. Scientific offprints documenting early experimental work in mammalian reproduction, embryology, and fertilization between 1926 and 1939. These publications record the formative research career of Gregory Pincus, the biologist whose later work in hormonal regulation of ovulation contributed directly to the development of the first oral contraceptive approved by.....

Gibson, J. The Emancipation of Women, 1894, political and social reform text advocating the expansion of women’s rights in late nineteenth century Britain during the period when organized campaigns for women’s suffrage and legal equality intensified. The book addresses the historical subordination of women under British law and argues that.....

[LGBTQ][Lesbian Activism][Intersectional Feminism] Lesbian feminist print materials archive, 1969–1977, chronicling lesbian writing, political organizing, and identity within the women’s liberation and lesbian feminist movements. This grouping brings together literary, musical, and activist texts produced during the height of the second wave feminism movement and the emergence of lesbian feminist institutions.....

DiMassa, Diane. Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, 1993-1995 documents the consolidation of queer feminist expression within underground comics during a period of heightened LGBTQ activism and cultural response to gendered violence in the United States. Created and self-published by Diane DiMassa, the series centers a lesbian protagonist whose exaggerated acts.....

Howe, Julia Ward autograph letter signed, late nineteenth century, documents her active leadership within the women’s suffrage movement and records the demands placed upon prominent reform figures engaged in national advocacy. Howe, widely known for authoring “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” during the Civil War and later a central.....

Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael. The Constitutional Basis of Women’s Suffrage, 1908 offprint articulating a sustained constitutional and political argument for women’s enfranchisement within the British suffrage movement. Written by a literary historian and feminist activist, the work documents decades of organized advocacy, including petitions, deputations, and mass demonstrations, while directly criticizing.....

"Woman Suffrage Leaflet." Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Woman’s Journal, Boston, Mass. Vol. V, No. 6. November, 1896. 8.5 x 6 in. Original paper wrappers, 4 page folded pamphlet. The pamphlet reproduced a speech given by activist William Lloyd Garrison at a meeting of the Rhode Island Women.....

The Second Wave issues from 1972 through 1976 bring together feminist literary publishing, movement journalism, and political argument at a moment when U.S. feminist discourse surrounding rape, abortion, battered women, childcare, prison, and international women’s struggles were of urgent and expanding concern within the women’s liberation movement. The four issues.....

[Women Employment] Annie Nathan Meyer [editor]. Woman’s Work in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1891. Bumping and wear to all corners and extremities. Wear and tearing at top of spine, and small tear at bottom. Wrapped in blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. This volume includes writings.....

[Women Suffrage] Addams, Jane. Handbill. 1911. “Jane Addams Wants to Vote.” Eminent American social worker Jane Addams outlines an argument for women’s suffrage in this extract from an article in Ladies’ Home Journal in 1910. Jane Addams, who is known for promoting the idea that it is each person’s responsibility.....

[Feminism and Women's Rights] [ Married Women Property Rights] [Law] "The Hon. Mrs. Norton and Married Women." By Arthur Arnold. The Married Women’s Property Committee. Manchester A. Ireland and Co., Printers, 1878. 15 pages. 7 x 5 in. Vertical fold down center with creasing, some losses, and adhesive at edge.....