Women together
Subtitle: a history in documents of the women's movement in the United States
By: by Judith Papachristou.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources; Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources
Notes: Bibliography: p. [267]-270.
"A Ms. book."
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The women’s movement is born : the 1830’s. Women and abolitionism -- Female antislavery societies -- Other abolitionist activity -- The Grimké sisters : women attacked  -- Defense of female abolitionists -- The woman question evolves -- Toward a woman’s movement -- Temperance and the movement -- The first decade : the 1850’s -- The first women’s rights conventions : 1848 -- The movement grows : a decade of conventions -- Convention speeches -- Resolutions and goals -- Movement work -- Opposition -- Support -- Defeat, conflict, and schism : 1865-1869 -- The Fourteenth Amendment -- The Equal Rights Association -- The Kansas campaign : 1867 -- The struggle in New York -- Democrats and republicans -- Controversy over the Fifteenth Amendment -- Conflict deepens -- The movement is divided -- Division and reunion : 1869-1890. American vs. national : one issue or many -- Sex rears its ugly head : the Woodhull affair -- Toward reunion of the movement -- Reunion -- The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union : 1874-1898 -- Formation of the WCTU -- From temperance to suffrage -- The WCTU as a school for women -- The first suffrage drive. Two strategies -- The federal approach : women try to vote -- The federal approach : a constitutional amendment -- the American approach : work in the states -- Limited suffrage -- Nonsuffrage activities -- Associationism and reform : 1890-1920 -- New organizations -- Women’s clubs and reform -- The General Federation Of Women’s Clubs -- Black women’s organizations -- Radical change versus reform  -- A brief history of wage-earning women : 1820-1914. The first strike -- Organization and resistance -- Industrialization and change -- Women and the labor movement -- Ties between women - class, race, ethnicity, and the women’s movement : 1850-1920 -- NAWSA and racial issues -- The southern strategy of the suffrage movement -- Concern for women workers -- Expediency and prejudice among women -- Building solidarity among women -- The YWCA -- The NWTUL -- The National Consumers’ League -- The final suffrage drive. New blood for the suffrage movement -- New tactics in suffragism : the congressional union -- Picketing the White House -- Brutalized for suffrage -- NAWSA and the final strategy -- The Nineteenth Amendment -- Action, reform, and quiescence : 1920-1950 -- The Women’s Joint Congressional Committee -- Organizing for birth control -- The decline of reform -- The red smear attack -- The National Woman’s Party -- Debate over the Equal Rights Amendment -- A time of retrenchment -- 1930-1960 : a changing world for women -- The revival of the women’s movement : 1960’s and 1970’s -- Toward a revival of the movement -- The movement develops two centers -- The battle against discrimination -- The radical second center -- Small women’s groups -- Consciousness raising and sisterhood -- The movement in the seventies : two centers form one movement -- Organizations multiply -- Goals of the movement: economic change -- Political power -- Social change -- Sexual freedom -- The contemporary movement.