Bibliograph

Women's rights in the United States, a history in documents, Anne M. Boylan

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Women's rights in the United States, a history in documents, Anne M. Boylan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261), web resources (pages 261-263), and index

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illustrationsmapsfacsimiles

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women's rights in the United States

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

900665354

Responsibility statement

Anne M. Boylan

Series statement

Pages from history

Sub title

a history in documents

Table Of Contents

Law & custom in the colonies. Economic and political rights ; Regulating marriage, sexuality, and divorce ; Religion and education -- Revolutionary ideals and realities. Women in wartime ; Women of the republic : debates over women's rights and equality ; What difference did the Revolution make? --Women's rights movements. Discussing/Debating women's rights ; The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 in context ; Women's rights movements ; Gender, race, and rights in the era of Civil War & Reconstruction -- Suffrage and women's rights. Seeking rights : economic, educational, personal ; The suffrage effort : new allies, new alliances, new strategies ; New women ; Suffrage-winning strategies -- Cartooning for and against suffrage --Women's citizenship in the post-suffrage era. The meanings of citizenship ; The equality debates ; Feminists, flappers, and their foes ; Women's rights in an era of economic depression -- The personal is political. Women's rights in the eras of wartime and the "Feminine mystique" ; Feminism : women's rights ; Feminism : women's liberation -- Women's rights after 1970. "Sisterhood" and its challengers ; Naming wrongs, seeking rights ; "Equality of rights under the law" : the ERA revived ; Global connections

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