On the Equality of the Sexes

"On the Equality of the Sexes", also known as "Essay: On the Equality of the Sexes",^[1] is a 1790 essay by Judith Sargent Murray.^[2]^[3] Murray wrote the work in 1770 but did not release it until April 1790, when she published it in two parts in two separate issues of Massachusetts Magazine.^[4]^[5] The essay predated Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women which was published in 1792 and 1794,^[6] and the work has been credited as being Murray's most important work.^[7]^[8]

In this feminist essay, Murray posed the argument of spiritual and intellectual equality between men and women.^[9] It also included a liberal analysis of traditional male superiority in the Bible and criticism of the deprivation of female education of the time.

^ Gardner, Jared (2012). The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture. University of Illinois Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780252036705. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ Baker, Jennifer J. (2005). Securing the Commonwealth. JHU Press. pp. 146–147. ISBN 9780801879722. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ Galewski, Elizabeth (2007). "The Strange Case for Women's Capacity to Reason: Judith Sargent Murray's Use of Irony in 'On the Equality of the Sexes'". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 93 (1): 84–108. doi:10.1080/00335630701326852. S2CID 143833177.
^ Villanueva Gardner, Catherine (2009). The A to Z of Feminist Philosophy. Scarecrow Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780810868397. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ Sargent Murray, Judith (1789). On the equality of the sexes. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Co. OCLC 310335412 – via WorldCat.
^ Hughes, Mary (2011). "An Enlightened Woman: Judith Sargent Murray and the Call to Equality". Undergraduate Review. 7 (21). Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ Hyser, Raymond; Arndt, j (2011). Voices of the American Past, Volume 1. Cengage Learning. p. 114. ISBN 9781111341244. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ Eisenmann, Linda (1998). Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States. Greenwood. pp. 5, 282. ISBN 9780313293238.
^ Vietto, Angela (2006). Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 56, 58. ISBN 9780754653387. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[1] Gardner, Jared (2012). The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture. University of Illinois Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780252036705. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[2] Baker, Jennifer J. (2005). Securing the Commonwealth. JHU Press. pp. 146–147. ISBN 9780801879722. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[3] Galewski, Elizabeth (2007). "The Strange Case for Women's Capacity to Reason: Judith Sargent Murray's Use of Irony in 'On the Equality of the Sexes'". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 93 (1): 84–108. doi:10.1080/00335630701326852. S2CID 143833177.

[4] Villanueva Gardner, Catherine (2009). The A to Z of Feminist Philosophy. Scarecrow Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780810868397. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[5] Sargent Murray, Judith (1789). On the equality of the sexes. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Co. OCLC 310335412 – via WorldCat.

[6] Hughes, Mary (2011). "An Enlightened Woman: Judith Sargent Murray and the Call to Equality". Undergraduate Review. 7 (21). Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[7] Hyser, Raymond; Arndt, j (2011). Voices of the American Past, Volume 1. Cengage Learning. p. 114. ISBN 9781111341244. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[8] Eisenmann, Linda (1998). Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States. Greenwood. pp. 5, 282. ISBN 9780313293238.

[9] Vietto, Angela (2006). Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 56, 58. ISBN 9780754653387. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

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