BOOK I
The Woman Movement
THE WOMAN MOVEMENT
The Most Brilliant Period
By Anna Howard Shaw
(American contemporary. Former president of the National American Suffrage Association. From a series of articles in “The Metropolitan.”)
The winning of the suffrage states, the work in the states not yet won, the conventions, gatherings and international councils in which women of every nation have come together, have all combined to make this quarter of a century the most brilliant period for women in the history of the world.
Woman’s Awakening
By Mary Ritter Beard
The awakening of women to the low social status of their sex is the most encouraging fact of the century.