It opens with a discussion about the women's movement and what it has done for American women and moves into an overview of some key points in history for the movement as well as several women who have influenced its direction.
Bibliography lists nine sources.
A 5 page contention that the American Revolution, and indeed the years following that revolution, did little toward changing the inequalities which existed in this country in regard to African Americans and women. Notes that while certain inroads would be made in the years which followed, even the Emancipation Proclamation and the rights of women to vote and own property, accomplished little in terms of achieving true equality. Concludes that it took the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s to result in any real change but that even today true equality has yet to be obtained. Bibliography lists 5 sources. Bibliography list 4 sources.