Women's Rights

Subjects:

• Women's Studies » Women's Issues in Politics & Law
• History » American History (General)
• Political Science » Civil/Political/Human Rights

Reviews:

• Students and teachers of women's history, as well as those just exploring the field, will find this a superb book to use....The book runs the gamut from the antislavery movement to rape and pornography, and each chapter begins with several pages of background text setting the stage for the documents, many of which have not appeared in other anthologies. The descriptive bibliographies are extremely useful. Essential. All levels and collections.
  —Choice October 2003
• Teens doing research for an assignment or those genuinely interested in the topic will gain a wealth of knowledge about women's struggle for equal rights, teachers will also want to use this book as a reference when teaching history or historical fiction.
  —VOYA December 2003
• [An] obvious choice for American women's history courses.
  —Feminist Collections July 2003
• This entry in the Major Issues in American History series traces the struggle for women's rights from the early days of industrialization through such twentieth-century developments as Roe v. Wade and the passage of Title IX.
  —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin Spring/Summer 2003

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Chronology of Events
• Introduction
• Factory Women's Turnouts, Women's Independence, and the Legacy of the American Revolution
• Antislavery Women, Public Speaking, and Equal Rights
• The Seneca Falls Convention and the Rise of the Women's Rights Movement
• The Fourteenth Amendment and the "New Departure"
• Bradwell v. Illinois and Taylor v. Louisiana: Women in the Courtroom
• Women's Sexuality Before World War I: Rape, Prostitution, and Reform
• The Atlanta Laundresses' Strike, Self-Help, and Anti Lynching: African American Women and Their Strategies Between Emancipation and World War I
• Muller v. Oregon, Adkins v. Children's Hospital, and Drafting an Equal Rights Amendment: The Equality-Difference Debate
• "The Uprising of the 30,000": Working Women, Unions, and Feminism
• "Family Limitation": The Politics of Birth Control and Women's Rights
• "Votes for Women": The Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
• Title VII, Sexual Harassment, and EEOC v. Sears and Roebuck: Women's Rights in the Modern Workplace
• The Right to Privacy: Abortion and the Debate over Roe v. Wade
• "The Personal Is Political" and Its Aftermath: Addressing Sexual Liberation and Violence
• Title IX and Women in Sport
• Supplemental Bibliography
• Web Sites
• Media Productions
• Index