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Women Without Superstition:
"No Gods - No Masters"

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Contents

Alphabetical Contents xi

Preface xii

Introduction 1

1 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) 17

"Rational Creatures" 20

2 Anne Newport Royall (1769 - 1854) 23

Missionaries 27

3 Frances Wright (1795 - 1852) 33

Lectures 39

4 Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876) 47

"Release From Superstition," Autobiography 50

5 Lydia Maria Child (1802 - 1880) 55

The Progress of Religious Ideas 58

6 Ernestine L. Rose (1810 - 1892) 63

A Defence of Atheism 73

7 Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) 87

Summer on the Lakes 91

8 Emma Martin (1812 - 1851) 93

Prayer 96

9 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902) 103

The Christian Church and Women 113
The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible 124

10 Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Freethought Reader 129

11 Lucy N. Colman (1818 - 1906) 177

Reminiscences 179

12 Marian Evans ["George Eliot"] (1819 - 1880) 185

Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming 187

13 Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906) 191

"Miss Anthony on the Religious Press" 197
"Vote for Religious Liberty" 199

14 Ella E. Gibson (1821 - 1901) 203

The Godly Women of the Bible 205

15 Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898) 211

The Dangers of the Hour 216
The Call for the Liberal Woman's Convention 220
Woman, Church and State 224

16 Lois Waisbrooker (1826 - 1909) 229

The Folly of Worship 232
The Curse of Christian Morality 233

17 Elmina D. Slenker (1827 - 1908) 237

Studying the Bible 240

18 Lillie Devereux Blake (1833 - 1913) 243

Woman in Paganism and Christianity 246

19 Ouida [Maria Louisa de la Ramee] (1839 - 1908) 253

The Failure of Christianity 255

20 Marilla M. Ricker (1840 - 1920) 263

Why I Am An Agnostic 266

21 Annie Besant (1847 - 1933) 271

Is Christianity A Success? 274

22 Susan H. Wixon (late 1840s - 1912) 283

Woman: Four Centuries of Progress 285

23 Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919) 293

The World's Need 293

24 Helen H. Gardener (1853 - 1925) 295

Vicarious Atonement 299

25 Ellen Battelle Dietrick 307

Women in the Early Christian Ministry 309

26 Josephine K. Henry (1846 - 1928) 315

Woman and the Bible 318

27 Etta Semple (1855 - 1914) 323

"Liberty of Conscience Is All That We Ask" 325

28 Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner (1858 - 1934) 327

Christianity & Conduct 330
"Testament" 334

29 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) 337

His Religion and Hers 342

30 Voltairine de Cleyre (1866 - 1912) 355

Sex Slavery 362
The Case of Woman Versus Orthodoxy 364
Crime and Punishment 376

31 Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940) 381

The Failure of Christianity 384

32 Zona Gale (1874 - 1939) 393

Why 396

33 Margaret Sanger (1879 - 1966) 401

From Which I Spring 407

34 Marian Noel Sherman, M.D. (1892 - 1975) 413

What Makes An Atheist Tick? 414

35 Dora Russell (1894 - 1986) 425

"Religious Training" 428

36 Meridel Le Sueur (1900 - 1996) 435

Freethinker Meridel Le Sueur 435

37 Margaret Knight (1903 - 1983) 443

Morals Without Religion 445
Christianity: The Debit Account 450

38 Queen Silver (1910 - 1998) 457

Humanity's Gain from Unbelief 460

39 Vashti Cromwell McCollum (1912 --) 463

Christian Halloween 465

40 Ruth Hurmence Green (1915 - 1981) 469

What I Found When I "Searched the Scriptures" 472

41 Catherine Fahringer (1922 --) 487

Portrait of an Atheist 487

42 Barbara Smoker (1923 --) 499

Why I Am An Atheist 501
So You Believe In God! 506

43 Anne Nicol Gaylor (1926 --) 511

What's Wrong with the Ten Commandments? 514
A Critique of the Scriptural Jesus 517
The Religious Battered Woman 521

44 Meg Bowman (1929 --) 525

Why We Burn: Sexism Exorcised 527

45 Barbara G. Walker (1930 --) 533

The Skeptical Feminist 535

46 Sherry Matulis (1931 --) 541

How I Earned My Feminist Credentials 543
Temporary Sins, Eternal Punishment 551
Religion's Child 553

47 Kay Nolte Smith (1932 - 1993) 555

Truth or the Consequences 556

48 Sonia Johnson (1936 --) 569

From Housewife to Heretic 571

49 Barbara Ehrenreich (1941 --) 593

U.S. Patriots: Without God on Their Side 595

50 Katha Pollitt (1949 --) 607

Subject to Debate 609

51 Taslima Nasrin (1962 --) 613

On Islamic Fundamentalism 615

Additional Biographical Sketches 623

Appendix 643

Bibliography 647

Special Acknowledgments 659

Index 662

Published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.


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