What Is the Women s Rights Movement

Release on 2018-10-16 | by Deborah Hopkinson

The story of Girl Power! Learn about the remarkable women who changed US history. From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, women throughout US history have fought for equality.

What Is the Women s Rights Movement
  • Author: Deborah Hopkinson
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781524786304
  • Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Page: 112
  • View: 278

The story of Girl Power! Learn about the remarkable women who changed US history. From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, women throughout US history have fought for equality. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women were demanding the right to vote. During the 1960s, equal rights and opportunities for women--both at home and in the workplace--were pushed even further. And in the more recent past, Women's Marches have taken place across the world. Celebrate how far women have come with this inspiring read!

The Women s Rights Movement

Release on 2007 | by Shane Mountjoy

The second wave of the movement, which promoted economic, political, and social equality, gained momentum in the 1960s and '70s. This work gives an introduction to one of the most prominent reform movements over the years.

The Women s Rights Movement
  • Author: Shane Mountjoy
  • Publisher: Infobase Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781438106373
  • Category: Electronic books
  • Page: 157
  • View: 947

The women's rights movement grew out of the women's suffrage movement of the mid-1800s. The second wave of the movement, which promoted economic, political, and social equality, gained momentum in the 1960s and '70s. This work gives an introduction to one of the most prominent reform movements over the years.

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women s Rights Movement

Release on 2009 | by Sally Gregory McMillen

“What is the matter, my dear, what is it?” she exclaimed. “Good God, what is it?
Speak to me!” “Oh, dear, dear senhora Dona Maria, what a disaster!” the
comadre answered. “What a star-crossed boy—Just look at what's happening to
him for ...

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women s Rights Movement
  • Author: Sally Gregory McMillen
  • Publisher: Pivotal Moments in American History
  • ISBN: 9780195393330
  • Category: History
  • Page: 310
  • View: 324

Presents a history of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention and its impact on reformers.

The Women s Rights Movement

Release on 2018-08-01 | by Eric Braun

And what challenges have women faced in the 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s in their fight for equality? Find out how Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, and other groundbreaking activists paved the way for the women's rights movement today.

The Women s Rights Movement
  • Author: Eric Braun
  • Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
  • ISBN: 9781541536999
  • Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Page: 32
  • View: 470

Women have come a long way since the first women's rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848—but women's rights activists are still working to expand rights today. What are the main concerns of women's rights activists today? And what challenges have women faced in the 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s in their fight for equality? Find out how Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, and other groundbreaking activists paved the way for the women's rights movement today. And learn how activists are working with groups that speak out for the rights of racial minorities and members of the LGBTQ+ community to expand rights for all.

The Women s Liberation Movement in Russia

Release on 1978-02-21 | by Richard Stites

to be the exact role of women within the proletarian movement? And what about
such questions as women's suffrage? On the first point, Bebel offered almost
nothing. "We need to pay special attention to the woman question," he admitted;
but ...

The Women s Liberation Movement in Russia
  • Author: Richard Stites
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 0691100586
  • Category: History
  • Page: 464
  • View: 866

"This book offers a brilliant treatment of many facets of its subject, but it also ends up being, for the reader, one of the finest general histories to be found, of these crucial years in Russian history. The source material is unbelievably detailed, and clearly cited on each page. Not only that, the writing is, at many points, the boldest, clearest I've almost ever found in the Academy. The author's opinions, summaries, insights easily spill out of the historical constructions. The presence of the author's psyche (he never hides behind his quotes) means the material is contoured. The reader gets, not only huge amounts of information, but an authorial presence, as company, that is often daring, bold, insightful, revelatory. And one stylistic point made me especially happy: when Stites uses metaphors to explain history, these are revelatory, and their internal implications are followed through in the prose."--Www.goodreads.com (Feb. 2, 2011.).

The Future of Women s Rights

Release on 2004 | by Joanna Kerr

This chapter starts by considering the specific context of African feminism and the
global trends , issues and influences which are defining African women ' s
movements . It then looks at the impacts this context has on feminist organizing ,
and ...

The Future of Women s Rights
  • Author: Joanna Kerr
  • Publisher: Zed Books
  • ISBN: 184277459X
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 224
  • View: 904

The remarkable array of women's activists and leaders from different parts of the world assembled for the dialogue in this volume are deeply concerned at the recent emergence of various trends that may threaten the ongoing work of women's movements in advancing gender equality, women's human rights and sustainable human development. These phenomena include the multifarious impacts of globalization and neoliberal economics, developments in biotechnology, the neo-conservative backlash against women's rights, monopolistic ownership patterns over information technologies that exclude women, fundamentalisms of various kinds and the rise of identity politics that subordinate or marginalize women's issues, and the increase in violent conflict and war. The contributors to this volume are united in seeing a pressing need for women's movements to evaluate the methods they have used until now, with a view to making their political work more effective in future. They try to identify current issues and trends in the world. They think through how these may impact on women and the work of women's movements. And they identify how women should prepare for them, and what strategies they should prioritise, in order to protect and advance their agenda. With as deliberately diverse a group of women thinkers as this, there is inevitably a thought-provokingly diverse range of views about how women ought to respond if they not be pushed on to the defensive, but instead take the initiative again and be more proactive across the wide range of arenas and issues that bear particularly on one-half of humanity.

American Women s Rights Movement

Release on 2009 | by Paul D. Buchanan

July 22, 1805 Lewis & Clark's Corps of Discovery pushes forward through the
Three Forks area of what is now southwestern Montana, led by a woman from the
Shoshone tribe named Sacagawea. She reassures the expedition that she ...

American Women s Rights Movement
  • Author: Paul D. Buchanan
  • Publisher: Branden Books
  • ISBN: 9780828321600
  • Category: Biography & Autobiography
  • Page: 256
  • View: 207

More than 140 entries in this book depict events which have had lasting national significance in opening opportunities in the struggle for equal civil rights and opportunities for women. The impact of many of the included events was initially felt on a local level; but in time it created repercussions that spread across the country. These stories show women assuming roles of providers and heads of households, and their leadership, exerted in and outside the home, would often manifest in the community at large and, in turn, in the nation and in the world.The book is divided into four parts: OneThe Seeds Are planted; Two19th CenturyThe Movement Takes Root; Three20th CenturyReaching for the Sunlight; Four21st CenturyComing into Full Bloom. The book begins with Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer and ends with Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Oprah Winfrey, and Sarah Palin.

Women and Socialism

Release on 2005-05-01 | by Sharon Smith

Rather, there were a number of different women's movements that progressed on
parallel tracks, largely separated not ... the emergence of the largely white
women's liberation movement—which was born united but quickly became
divided ...

Women and Socialism
  • Author: Sharon Smith
  • Publisher: Haymarket Books
  • ISBN: 1608460622
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 224
  • View: 430

Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women’s liberation struggle, yet women remain second-class citizens. Feminism has shifted steadily rightward since the 1960s. This collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, badly needed today. Women and Socialism locates the source of women’s oppression in class society, arguing that only a movement integrating the fight for women’s liberation with a struggle against a system that puts profit above human needs can end women’s oppression—along with all other forms of inequality. Sharon Smith is the author of many articles on women’s liberation and the US working class. Her writings appear regularly in Socialist Worker newspaper and the International Socialist Review.

The Women s Liberation Movement

Release on 2013-09-11 | by Jan Bradshaw

EDITORIAL A collection of articles about the Women's Liberation Movement in
the various forms it takes in the different ... (and to what extent) to cooperate with
male-dominated socialist movements; women everywhere have become aware
of ...

The Women s Liberation Movement
  • Author: Jan Bradshaw
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISBN: 9781483160825
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 118
  • View: 691

The Women's Liberation Movement: Europe and North America is a collection of articles that tackle various issues concerning the Women's Liberation Movement in Europe and North America. Consists of nine chapters, the book covers the feminist movement in a specific geographical region, specifically the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and North America. The book will be of great interest to readers concerned with the condition of feminist movement in Western countries.

Women s Suffrage

Release on 2003 | by Colleen Adams

A Primary Source History of the Women's Rights Movement in America Colleen
Adams ... to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion , and will not
hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice , or
Representation .

Women s Suffrage
  • Author: Colleen Adams
  • Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 0823936856
  • Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Page: 64
  • View: 176

Chronicles women's struggle for suffrage in the United States, including the contributions of such prominent figures as Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott.

Harassment

Release on 2007-08-01 | by Sylvia Veronica Scott

collect wages, and right to vote.11 Maggie Humm (1992) stated that the
ascension of feminism as a movement toward ... Council of Women was founded,
followed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association which was
changed to the League of Women Voters. In 1920 ... This women's rights
movement also received impetus from the African-American Civil Rights
Movement of that decade.

Harassment
  • Author: Sylvia Veronica Scott
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN: 9781425756628
  • Category: Philosophy
  • Page: 74
  • View: 373

This book, HARASSMENT: VICTIMS AND THEIR VICTIMIZERS, will attempt to expose the truth about the sources and reasons for the preponderance of sexual harassment in the workplace and academia. Harassment is a pervasive social problem directed mostly toward females of all ages and races by males of all races. The underlying causes of harassment are sexism and sexism-racism that have been established in this patriarchal society as the norm for the behavior of males. This "norm" is not normal; rather, it is a type of psychopathologic behavior that is dangerous. Actually, these occurrences may border on fascism within a democratic and liberal society. The male entitlement theory, manhood theory and the masculine mystique all contribute to the harassment of women because males believe that they have a right to control females with physical and /or psychological violence. The reasons why women are victims will be followed by why men victimize women. Both chapters will cover the assessments relevant to the problems both women and men face in this Western culture due to our socialization practices. Men are not cognizant of the scope of their behavior; women are not often certain about how to handle difficult situations with men in the workplace and academia. Some women may be becoming too complacent and will accept abuse; while, others will in turn become aggressors toward other women and then with men in relationships.

Women s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation

Release on 2007 | by Kathryn Kish Sklar

1 Her statement suggested that transatlantic anti-slavery networks were the key
milieu out of which the women's suffrage movement developed in both countries.
Her contemporaries in the British women's movement did not place such a strong
 ...

Women s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation
  • Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 0300137869
  • Category: History
  • Page: 385
  • View: 659

Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the editors ask how conceptions of slavery & gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, & Britain.

The Women s Rights Movement

Release on 1996 | by Brenda Stalcup

Discussion notes for each chapter, chronology of women's rights in America, lengthy annotated bibliography, & index. Part of the American History series.

The Women s Rights Movement
  • Author: Brenda Stalcup
  • Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
  • ISBN: 1565103661
  • Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Page: 263
  • View: 205

An extensive collection of documents covering the women's rights movement from Colonial times to the present, with emphasis on current controversies. Opposing Viewpoints books are always of great use in the classroom & for student reports. With original articles that present differing viewpoints on such subjects as whether women's suffrage was or was not a radical reform, students are able to examine varied opinions. Discussion notes for each chapter, chronology of women's rights in America, lengthy annotated bibliography, & index. Part of the American History series.

America in White Black and Gray

Release on 2007-05-30 | by Klaus P. Fischer

A long history of civil rights struggles therefore preceded the 19605, most of them
centering on legal disabilities that had reduced women to the status of second-
class citizens. What proved revolutionary about the women's liberation movement
 ...

America in White Black and Gray
  • Author: Klaus P. Fischer
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 9780826428264
  • Category: History
  • Page: 452
  • View: 972

Numerous studies on various aspects of the issues of the 1960s have been written over the past 35 years, but few have so successfully integrated the many-sided components into a coherent, synthetic, and reliable book that combines good storytelling with sound scholarly analysis.

Women s Untold Stories

Release on 1999 | by Mary Romero

In that story , white women's activism in the civil rights movement is really the
starting point for a new phase of the women's movement . But what if we ask how
and why white women got into the civil rights movement in the first place ? And
what ...

Women s Untold Stories
  • Author: Mary Romero
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 0415922070
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 282
  • View: 657

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Women s Movement in Community Politics in the US

Release on 2013-10-22 | by D.W. Stewart

The women's rights movement of the late 1960s and 1970s focused on issues
and made demands that resulted in the establishment of new commissions
mandated ... What are the goals and agendas of local commissions on women's
status?

The Women s Movement in Community Politics in the US
  • Author: D.W. Stewart
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISBN: 9781483285795
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 160
  • View: 499

There are more than 80 Commissions on the Status of Women operating at the local community level in the United States. These advisory citizen's groups work under the premise that women must represent themselves in the politics and policy-making of the community. This book examines the performance of the commissions, focusing primarily on the perspectives of women activists and high-level public officials. An in-depth study of five commissions deemed 'successful' is presented, and the author concludes by analyzing the strategies for change available to the women's movement at the community level

The Black Power Movement

Release on 2013-08-21 | by Peniel E. Joseph

Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era Peniel E. Joseph ... A similar case
can be made for the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement, which took many
cues from Black Power's radicalism. But what of black women? What of those
who ...

The Black Power Movement
  • Author: Peniel E. Joseph
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781136773471
  • Category: History
  • Page: 408
  • View: 387

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors around to write original essays on the Black Power Movement. Taken together they provide a critical and much needed historical overview of the Black Power era. Offering important examples of undocumented histories of black liberation, this volume offers both powerful and poignant examples of 'Black Power Studies' scholarship.

10 American History Plays for the Classroom

Release on 1995-09 | by Sarah J. Glassock

What Happened ? Throughout its history , the women's rights movement has
been closely associated with other movements , such as abolition , temperance ,
and civil rights . The first women's rights convention was organized by Elizabeth ...

10 American History Plays for the Classroom
  • Author: Sarah J. Glassock
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0590599313
  • Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Page: 96
  • View: 780

Contains scripts for ten plays on different aspects of American history plus follow-up teaching activities.

Women s Movements

Release on 2008-04-24 | by Sandra Grey

In the mid-1980s, when we were researching the US women's rights movement
in the 1950s for our book, Survival in the ... consumed by soul searching and
debate over whether a vital women's movement still existed and, if so, what its
future ...

Women s Movements
  • Author: Sandra Grey
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781134042395
  • Category: Political Science
  • Page: 208
  • View: 615

Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by scholarship that regards disruptive action as a defining element of social movements. It goes on to compare the trajectories over the past 40 years of women's movements in Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Finally, it looks at the extension of feminist activism into supranational and subnational institutions—the global and the local—and into cyberspace. Comparing these diverse sites of political and social action illuminates some of the major opportunities and constraints that have impacted upon women’s movements. It advances our understanding of the lifecycles of social movements by examining the differing ways in which women's movements operate and sustain themselves over time and space, ways that often differ from those of male-led movements. The book also engages with the question of whether there is an on-going women's movement—with sufficient continuity to warrant description as such—by presenting the voices of young activists East and West. Filling an important gap in social movement research, this book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists and gender studies scholars and researchers.

The Women s Liberation Movement

Release on 2012-02-27 | by Sylvia Engdahl

The Debate Over the ERA Led to Major Changes in the Status of Women Leslie
W. Gladstone The following viewpoint explains that both sides in the long and
often bitter controversy over the Equal Rights Amendment were highly emotional
about it, and the amendment's eventual defeat Was both ... Leslie W. Gladstone, “
The Long Road to Equality: What Women Won from the ERA Ratification Effort.

The Women s Liberation Movement
  • Author: Sylvia Engdahl
  • Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
  • ISBN: 9780737757903
  • Category: Young Adult Nonfiction
  • Page: 232
  • View: 905

This essential volume explores the historical and cultural events leading up to and following the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s. This book addresses several issues surrounding the movement, such as the debate surrounding the Equal Rights Amendment and the impact of the "Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination of Women" treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979. Personal narratives are featured from people impacted by the Women's Movement, including an interview with a member of NOW (the National Organization for Women), and a writer recalling what the liberation movement meant to her in the 1970s.