Tidal Wave
Subtitle: How Women Changed America at Century's End
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9781417721030
Subjects: Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - History; Sociology
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.