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First feminist found
21apr02
LONDON: A 370-year-old book discovered under a pile of documents in a town hall
vault could change the history of the women's movement.
Wigan Council heritage officer Alan Davies stumbled across the dusty book in the
basement at Leigh Town Hall, Greater Manchester, while searching the archives for
another item.
Mr Davies uncovered the 182-page volume called Woman's Worth and subtitled "A
treatise proveinge by sundrie reasons that women do excell men." In the book an
unnamed woman author set out her beliefs in the 1630s or 1640s that "women are
better at everything than men".
Mr Davies said it was believed to be one of the earliest known writings on women's
rights.
"When I looked at the style of writing and the binding we could date the book to the
17th century. Most people think of the women's movement emerging around the start
of the 20th century with Emily Pankhurst," he said.
"There was a book written in the late 16th century and one in the 17th century about
women's rights but the authors were men.
"This book could prove very important. Events might have been brought forward by a
few generations if it had been published."
Mr Davies passed copies of the book to Professor Kari McBride, an expert on the
history of women's rights at the Arizona University to study.
In an e-mail to Mr Davies, Professor McBride said: "What a find. I wish I could hop
on a plane right now see this little treasure."
In chapter one of the book, Eve More Excellent Than Adam, the author argued that
Adam in the Bible was nothing else but clay or red earth. In chapter two, Eve Less
Sinful Than Adam, she wrote: "Women do excell men in virtues and rare
endowments of the minde and I think we shall finde that herein also women doe farre
outstrip men."
Other chapter titles include Women Loved Christ More Than Men, Women Wiser
Than Men and Women More Valiant Than Men.
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