Books in the Classics in Women's Studies series

A compilation of lectures, this book provides readers with pioneering freethinker and abolitionist, Frances Wright. Her liberalized thinking has shaped attitudes and laws on divorce, birth control and secular education.

Presenting a history of woman's oppression, this book attempts to document the sad legacy of injustice and discrimination against women, which is inseparable from the history of both Christianity and the evolution of the Western state. It also traces the patterns of male domination in both church and state that kept women in virtual bondage.

Arguably her most important and influential book, this controversial work, first published in 1922 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, attempted to broaden the still-radical idea of birth control beyond its socialist and feminist roots