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Shapers of the Great Debate on Women's Rights A Biographical Dictionary
Joyce Duncan
ISBN: 0-313-33869-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33869-4
256 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/2008
List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • An excellent quick reference and resource, especially for women's studies shelves.
    —MBR: Internet Bookwatch     12/1/2008
  • "As a historical narrative in the great-woman tradition, this book can be recommended as an engaging and inspirational resource."
    —Feminist Collections     Winter 2009
  • "Libraries that have purchased the other books in the Shapers of the Great American Debates reference series may be interested in adding this book, which might also be useful for quick reference needs."
    —VOYA     4/1/2009
  • ". . . this book illustrates how women contributed to American history through their efforts to secure suffrage and civil rights. . . . At the conclusion of the text, you've encountered a diverse array of academics, writers, politicians, religious figures, and actors, all working to secure equality and recognition for women."
    —Catholic Library World     June 2009
Description: The three waves of feminism are explored through the lives of the women who made history in bringing women's issues to the forefront of American society. Many early feminists supported not only women's rights, but also rights of slaves and contributed to the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, granting emancipation to slaves. They continued to work towards women's suffrage and were hopeful the Fourteenth Amendment would provide universal suffrage. However, women were not granted suffrage until the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, nearly fifty years later. It was women's fundamental need for independence and an identity of their own, separate from that of men, which thrust the women's movement forward and continues to propel it today. Many notable women, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Billie Jean King, Betty Friedan, Helen Gurley Brown, Jane Fonda, and Sandra Day O'Connor, are included in this history of the women's movement in America. The biographical entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a bibliography.

The Shapers of the Great Debate series takes a biographical approach to history, following the premise that people make history in the circumstances in which they find themselves. Each volume in this series examines the lives and experiences of the individuals involved in a particular debate through both major and minor biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Timeline of Womens Rights in the United States
    Authors Note
    Preface
    FIRST WAVE: THE WOMAN QUESTION TO SUFFRAGE
    Introduction
    Frances Fanny Wright
    Sarah Moore Grimk
    Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth)
    Margaret Fuller
    Lucretia Mott
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Amelia Jenks Bloomer
    Susan Brownell Anthony
    Anna Howard Shaw
    Lucy Stone
    Victoria Claflin Woodhull
    Jane Addams
    Margaret Sanger
    Frances Elizabeth Willard
    Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
    Olympia Brown
    Matilda Joslyn Gage
    Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    Alice Stokes Paul
    Jeanette Rankin
    SECOND AND THIRD WAVE FEMINISM: CIVIL RIGHTS TO THE INTERNET
    Introduction
    Anna Pauline Murray
    Bella Abzug
    Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
    Gloria Steinem
    Billy Jean King
    Alice Malsenior Walker
    Kate Millett
    Shirley St. Hill Chisholm
    Wilma Pearl Mankiller
    Shirley St. Hill Chisholm
    Wilma Pearl Mankiller
    Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    Phyllis Chesler
    Fannie Lou Hamer
    Audre Lorde
    bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins)
    Esther Eggertsen Peterson
    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
    Camille Anna Paglia
    Shere Hite
    Barbara Seaman
    Mary Daly
    Andrea Dworkin
    SHORT BIOGRAPHIES
    Julia Ward Howe
    Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell
    Katherine (Kate) OFlaherty Chopin
    Ida Husted Harper
    Harriot Stanton Blatch
    Alice Stone Blackwell
    Ida B. Wells
    Mary Eliza Church Terrell
    Mary Jane McLoed Bethune
    Inez Milholland Boissevain
    Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
    Helen Gurley Brown
    Mitsuye Yasutake Yamada
    Phyllis Schlafly
    Aileen C. Hernandez
    Marilyn French
    LaDonna Harris
    Alix Kates Shulman
    Susan Brownmiller
    Jane Fonda
    Germaine Greer
    Letty Cottin Pogrebin
    Barbara Alexander Ehrenreich
    Rita Mae Brown
    Shulamith Firestone
    atharine MacKinnon
    Barbara Smith
    Cherrie Moraga
    Susan Faludi
    Naomi Wolf
    Katie Roiphe
    Rebecca Walker
    SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the Author: Joyce Duncan is a Lecturer of Cross-Disciplinary Studies at East Tennessee State University. She is the author of Ahead of Their Time: A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-Taking Women (Greenwood, 2001) and edited Sport in American Culture (2004).
PDF Catalogs:
Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
Academic Library Spring 2009.pdf
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