Women's rights / Sharon Hartman Strom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strom, Sharon Hartman

Series:

Major issues in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights--United States--History.

Women's rights.

United States.

History.

Women's rights--United States--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxii, 353 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.

Contents:

1. Factory Women's Turnouts, Women's Independence, and the Legacy of the American Revolution 13

2. Antislavery Women, Public Speaking, and Equal Rights 33

3. The Seneca Falls Convention and the Rise of the Women's Rights Movement 53

4. The Fourteenth Amendment and the "New Departure" 75

5. Bradwell v. Illinois and Taylor v. Louisiana: Women in the Courtroom 91

6. Women's Sexuality Before World War I: Rape, Prostitution, and Reform 109

7. The Atlanta Laundresses' Strike, Self-Help, and Anti-Lynching: African-American Women's Rights Between Emancipation and World War I 133

8. Muller v. Oregon, Adkins v. Children's Hospital, and Drafting an Equal Rights Amendment: The Equality-Difference Debate 155

9. "The Uprising of the 20,000": Working Women, Unions, and Feminism 177

10. "Family Limitation": The Politics of Birth Control and Women's Rights 199

11. "Votes for Women": The Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment 223

12. Title VII, Sexual Harassment, and EEOC v. Sears and Roebuck: Women's Rights in the Modern Workplace 247

13. The Right to Privacy, Abortion, and the Debate over Roe v. Wade 269

14. "The Personal Is Political" and Its Aftermath: Addressing Sexual Liberation and Sexual Violence 295

15. Title IX and Women in Sport 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index.

ISBN:

0313311358

OCLC:

49977084