Tidal Wave
Subtitle: How Women Changed America at Century's End
Publisher: Free Press
Published: February 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780743255028
Subjects: History; History: World; Gender Studies; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - History; History / General; General; Feminism; United States; Women
First sentence: THE "FIRST WAVE" of women's rights activism in the United States built slowly from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century, finally cresting in 1920 with the passage of the nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women the most fundamental right of citizenship, the vote.