This work is a survey of the efforts through which women have changed their place in American society from the nation's founding to the present. Examining the historical struggle for suffrage, legal and property rights, and rights in the work place, the authors show how these experiences have shaped a contemporary movement for economic, political, and social equality that has become increasingly independent and less and less likely to place women's issues second to other national concerns.
The authors recount a history of women activists who repeatedly set aside their own issues in...
This work is a survey of the efforts through which women have changed their place in American society from the nation's founding to the present. Ex...
This book describes the evolution of an increasingly independent women's movement committed to pursuing women's issues on all fronts. It provides historical analysis and rich documentation drawn from legal statutes and judicial decisions, demographic data, and public opinion polls, as well as biographies and other narrative accounts.
This book describes the evolution of an increasingly independent women's movement committed to pursuing women's issues on all fronts. It provides hist...