Victoria C. Woodhull

In 2005, this book and several other difficult-to-find published speeches on eugenics by Victoria C. Woodhull were republished in high-quality facsimile in a collection entitled: Lady Eugenist: Feminist Eugenics in the Speeches and Writings of Victoria Woodhull. ISBN: 978-1-1-58742-040-5 (pb) and 978-1058742-041-2 (hb). The collection includes: Children--Their Rights and Privileges (1871); Press Notices (1869-1882, publ. 1890. An excellent source of background on her speeches on eugenics in the early 1870s); The Garden of Eden (1875, publ. 1890); Stirpiculture (1888); Humanitarian Government ((1890); The Scientific Propagation of the Human Race (1893). Lady Eugenist also includes other useful background information and commentary, including newspaper articles from the period. This pamphlet, "The Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit," perhaps got the widest circulation of all her published speeches. A better representation of what she was saying in the early 1870s can be found in her "The Scientific Propagation of the Human Race," which she says on the first page was "A Lecture Delivered at Carnegie Music Hall, New York City, November 20th, 1893 and throughout America, from 1870 to 1876." Note too that her ideas on eugenics seemed to be based more on ideas about human breeding circulating among utopian communities in the Midwest when she was going up there than on Galton or Darwinian thinking. She hints at that in the first paragraph of "Scientific Propagation." In the 1870s, her ideas on eugenics were also closely linked to her radical ideas about marriage and family life, as well as folk ideas about influences on a mother during pregnancy impacting her baby. Her major published speeches on eugenics have been republished in high-quality facsimile in Lady Eugenist (2005, details in Notes below) along with some additional material, including articles from newspapers of that period.

A speech by one of the 19th century's most dynamic and progressive women in favor of women's suffrage.

This speech defends Woodhull's advocacy of free love or social freedom, which served to create divisions within the women's rights movement and led eventually to her ostracism by some women's rights associations. At the time this was published Victoria Woodhull was perhaps the most well-known promoter of free love (sex outside marriage) in the U.S. This is the speech in which she abandoned her previous reticence to state her own position on free love and took the radical position, telling her audience that she had a right to, "love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please." In library collections this book is variously titled, including "A Speech on The Principles of Social Freedom," "The Principles of Social Freedom," and "And the Truth Shall Make You Free," due to ambiguities on the title page. This speech and others on the same topic were republished in facsimile in a 2005 book, Free Lover: Sex, Marriage and Eugenics in the Early Speeches of Victoria Woodhull. ISBN: 978-1-58742-050-4 (pb) and 978-1-58742-051-1 (hb). The book also includes a series of letters she wrote to the NY Times in 1871, along with: The Scarecrows of Sexual Slavery ((1873); The Elixir of Life (1873); Tried as by Fire (1873–74).

One of the 19th century's most notorious figures discusses human rights and calls for greater attention to the woman question.

Interprets the biblical story of the Garden of Eden as a symbol for the human body.

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.

Paluten ist ein echter Abenteurer und kann schon gar nicht mehr zählen, wie oft er Freedom nun schon gerettet hat. Professor Entes Klonmaschine hat sich dabei in der Vergangenheit als besonders hilfreich erwiesen. Doch ausgerechnet die geht jetzt kaputt. Für die Reparatur benötigt er ein besonders seltenes Metall, welches es nur auf dem Gipfel des höchsten und gefährlichsten Berg Freedoms gibt: Mount Schmeverest. Paluten und Edgar machen sich natürlich sofort auf den Weg, um das seltene Metall zu besorgen, stoßen dabei allerdings auf unerwartete Gefahren und unvorhergesehene Hindernisse. Schaffen sie es, diesen Widrigkeiten zu trotzen und das Metall zu bekommen?