Women's rights in the United States
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: Anne M. Boylan
Series: Pages from history; Pages from history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780195338294
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sources; Women; History; Feminism; Women's rights
Notes: "Timeline": pages 264-267.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261), web resources (pages 261-263), and index.
Table of contents: title: Law & custom in the colonies. Economic and political rights ; Regulating marriage, sexuality, and divorce ; Religion and education; title: Revolutionary ideals and realities. Women in wartime ; Women of the republic : debates over women's rights and equality ; What difference did the Revolution make?; title: 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; title: Suffrage and women's rights. Seeking rights : economic, educational, personal ; The suffrage effort : new allies, new alliances, new strategies ; New women ; Suffrage-winning strategies; title: Cartooning for and against suffrage; title: 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; title: The personal is political. Women's rights in the eras of wartime and the "Feminine mystique" ; Feminism : women's rights ; Feminism : women's liberation; title: Women's rights after 1970. "Sisterhood" and its challengers ; Naming wrongs, seeking rights ; "Equality of rights under the law" : the ERA revived ; Global connections.