Gray Rabbit press release
Victoria Woodhull: Thinking Today's Thoughts 150 Years Ago
With all the hoopla surrounding Hillary Clinton's historic nomination for the Presidency of the United States, it's important to remember that her "first" comes with a caveat: she's the first female nominee for President from one of the two major parties. But long before she broke that glass ceiling, Victoria Claflin Woodhull broke the gender barrier. In 1872-75 years before Hillary Clinton was born-Victoria Woodhull won the nomination of the Equal Rights Party (who also nominated Frederick Douglass for Vice President). She came to national prominence through a series of lectures and writings on the United States government: what it was and what she believed it ought to be. She collected much of that thinking into the volume The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government.
And while she was waging her unsuccessful campaign for the Presidency, she was also part of the growing movement for female suffrage, which culminated in the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920. She was also a proponent of Free Love, freedom for women to choose how and with whom they'd live their lives, and even topics that were radical at the time, and today are simply expressions of equality.
In this newest year of the woman, Gray Rabbit Publications is proud to be publishing two volumes of Victoria Woodhull's ideas.
The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government (266 pages, $8.99, trade paperback, ISBN: 978-1-5154-0047-9) is the original text published by Woodhull's own firm in 1871.
Victoria C. Woodhull: Ideas Ahead of Her Time (210 pages, $7.99, trade paperback, ISBN: 978-1-5154-0046-8) is a collection of essays on suffrage, government and society, collected together for the first time. Contents include: "A New Constitution for the United States of the World," "The Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull to Congress," "Constitutional Equality," "A Lecture on Constitutional Equality," "Children-Their Rights and Privileges," "And The Truth Shall Make You Free," "The Elixir of Life, or, Why Do We Die?" and "The Garden of Eden, or, The Paradise Lost & Found."
Both books are available through all major online retailers, and to physical bookstores via special order through Ingram, which is the distributor of all Gray Rabbit titles.
With all the hoopla surrounding Hillary Clinton's historic nomination for the Presidency of the United States, it's important to remember that her "first" comes with a caveat: she's the first female nominee for President from one of the two major parties. But long before she broke that glass ceiling, Victoria Claflin Woodhull broke the gender barrier. In 1872-75 years before Hillary Clinton was born-Victoria Woodhull won the nomination of the Equal Rights Party (who also nominated Frederick Douglass for Vice President). She came to national prominence through a series of lectures and writings on the United States government: what it was and what she believed it ought to be. She collected much of that thinking into the volume The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government.
And while she was waging her unsuccessful campaign for the Presidency, she was also part of the growing movement for female suffrage, which culminated in the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920. She was also a proponent of Free Love, freedom for women to choose how and with whom they'd live their lives, and even topics that were radical at the time, and today are simply expressions of equality.
In this newest year of the woman, Gray Rabbit Publications is proud to be publishing two volumes of Victoria Woodhull's ideas.
The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government (266 pages, $8.99, trade paperback, ISBN: 978-1-5154-0047-9) is the original text published by Woodhull's own firm in 1871.
Victoria C. Woodhull: Ideas Ahead of Her Time (210 pages, $7.99, trade paperback, ISBN: 978-1-5154-0046-8) is a collection of essays on suffrage, government and society, collected together for the first time. Contents include: "A New Constitution for the United States of the World," "The Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull to Congress," "Constitutional Equality," "A Lecture on Constitutional Equality," "Children-Their Rights and Privileges," "And The Truth Shall Make You Free," "The Elixir of Life, or, Why Do We Die?" and "The Garden of Eden, or, The Paradise Lost & Found."
Both books are available through all major online retailers, and to physical bookstores via special order through Ingram, which is the distributor of all Gray Rabbit titles.