xliii, 337 p. : 22 cm

From the Publisher: Suffragist, lecturer, eugenicist businesswoman, free lover, and the first woman to run for president of the United States, Victoria C. Woodhull (1838-1927) has been all but forgotten as a leading nineteenth-century feminist writer and radical. Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull is the first multigenre, multisubject collection of her materials, giving contemporary audiences a glimpse into the radical views of this nineteenth-century woman who advocated free love between consensual adults and who was labeled "Mrs. Satan" by cartoonist Thomas Nast. Woodhull's texts reveal the multiple conflicting aspects of this influential woman, who has been portrayed in the past as either a disreputable figure or a brave pioneer. This collection of letters, speeches, essays, and articles elucidate some of the lesser-known movements and ideas of the nineteenth century. It also highlights, through Woodhull's correspondence with fellow suffragist Lucretia Mott, tensions within the suffragist movement and demonstrates the changing political atmosphere and role of women in business and politics in the late nineteenth century. With a comprehensive introduction contextualizing Woodhull's most important writing, this collection provides a clear lens through which to view late nineteenth-century suffragism, labor reform, reproductive rights, sexual politics, and spiritualism

Includes bibliographical references and index

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the text -- Introduction -- 1: Woodhull manifesto -- 2: Killing no murder -- 3: Page of American history: constitution of the United States of the world -- 4: Memorial of Victoria C Woodhull -- 5: Constitutional equality -- 6: New rebellion: the great secession speech of Victoria C Woodhull -- 7: My dear Mrs Bladen -- 8: Correspondence between the Victoria league and Victoria C Woodhull: the first candidate for the next presidency -- 9: My dear Mrs Mott -- 10: Truth shall make you free: a speech on the principles of social freedom -- 11: Speech on the impending revolution -- 12: Correspondence of the equal rights party -- 13: Speech of Victoria C Woodhull -- 14: Beecher-Tilton scandal case -- 15: Naked truth; or, the situation reviewed! -- 16: Dear Lucretia Mott -- 17: Reformation or revolution, which? or, behind the political scenes -- 18: Spirit world: a highly interesting communication from Mrs Victoria C Woodhull -- 19: Elixir of life; or, why do we die? an oration -- 20: Scare-crows of sexual slavery -- 21: Tried as by fire; or, the true and the false, socially -- 22: Garden of Eden; or, paradise lost and found -- 23: Stirpiculture; or, the scientific propagation of the human race -- 24: Rapid multiplication of the unfit -- 25: I am the daughter of time -- 26: Woman suffrage in the United States -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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