Libertarian Essays by Women…so Far

Here is the updated version… and it still needs work. (Look at my original post for more info on the project.)

A Women’s Liberty Reader Essay Selections

Women’s Rights

• Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women, 1789
• Mary Wollstonecraft,”The Subjugation of Women”,  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Angelina Grimke, Rights and Responsibilities of Women (Boaz’s Libertarian Reader)
• Sarah Grimke, Woman as a Moral Being, (also in Boaz’s Libertarian Reader)
• Emma Goldman Women Suffrage
• Zora Neale Hurston (People keep mentioning that she belongs in this category any essay suggestions?)

Individualist Feminism

• Claire Morgan, Feminism and Individualism
• Wendy McElroy, Introductory Essay to Individualist Feminism of the 19th Century
• Wendy McElroy, Mises Legacy to Feminism

Children’s Rights

• Maria Montessori, What are the rights of Children?,i, Advanced Montessori Method, Vol 1., p11.
• Karen  I.  Vaughn, Who owns the Children?
• Sarah Fitz-Claridge, Taking Children Seriously & the Future of Liberty
• Sarah Fitz-Claridge (with commentary by Lawrence White), Children’s Rights and the Law
• Murray Rothbard, Children and Rights (I know he is not a she, but I thought this essay was worthy of consideration.)

Economic & Social Theory

• Bettina Bein Graves, (essay?)
• Jane Jacobs, (is she considered a libertarian?)
• Emily Chamlee Wright
• (this is the section that I need the most help with!)

Philosophy of Freedom

• Isabel Paterson, ”The Humanitarian with the Guillotine“, The God of the Machine
• Rose Wilder Lane, Give Me Liberty
• Virginia Postrel, “After Socialism”
• Virginia Postrel, “The Green Road to Serfdom,” Reason, 1990 (Anybody have a digital copy?)
• Mary Ruwart, (essay?)
• Ayn Rand, The Only Path to Tomorrow
• Ayn Rand, The Nature of Government
• Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It

Keep it coming!