Think and Act.
Penny, Virginia. Think and Act. A series of articles pertaining to men and women, work and wages. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869.
8vo.; brown cloth; spine sunned; extremities lightly frayed.
First edition. NUC locates eight copies. Not in Gerritsen Collection. In these “few sober reflections on women and their business interests” (preface), Penny, one of the first women to write about economic equality, calls for equal employment opportunities, as well as equal compensation for equal work. In nearly one hundred short chapters Penny explains the economic skeleton of society and addresses its relationship to, and impact on, issues of gender equality; of roles inside and outside the home; of ways in which women may prepare for the workforce and find opportunities in and out of it; as well as how they might hurt the cause. Prescient in her advocacy for woman’s rights in the home and work place, Penny was an early model for later female socialists. (Women and American Socialism 1870-1920, by Buhle).
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