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Women, power, and political change / Bonnie G. Mani.
LIBRA HN49.W6 M345 2007
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Van Pelt Library HN49.W6 M345 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mani, Bonnie G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women social reformers--United States--History.
- Women social reformers.
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 315 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- Contemporary women face barriers as they try to balance family and careers, choose the most promising education and employment options, and run for elected office. Women, Power, and Political Change analyzes the lives of sixteen American women who facilitated social and political changes in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. These women were entrepreneurs-a small group advocating policies that imposed costs on some Americans but generated benefits for women. Using qualitative and quantitative data, Bonnie G. Mani describes the social and political context of the times when each of the women lived and worked. What she uncovers regarding the similarities and differences between these women demonstrates how women can influence public policy without holding elected office and without personal wealth. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the evolution of women's political roles in American history.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Colonial Times to 1776: From early settlement to the American Revolution 9
- Anne Hutchinson 11
- Chapter 2 1776 to 1848: The American Revolution to the Early Women's Movement 19
- Abigail Adams 23
- The Grimke Sisters: Sarah and Angelina 29
- Sojourner Truth 46
- Chapter 3 1848 to 1890: The Early Women's Movement and the years that preceded the Suffrage Movement 61
- Susan Brownell Anthony 68
- Lucretia Mott 84
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 95
- Lucy Stone 106
- Harriet Tubman 117
- Chapter 4 1890 to 1925: The Suffrage Movement 135
- Jane Addams 139
- Carrie Chapman Catt 152
- Alice Paul 171
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett 182
- Chapter 5 1925 to the present: The End of the Suffrage Movement through the Contemporary Women's Rights Movement 205
- Hillary Rodham Clinton 216
- Elizabeth Hanford Dole 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739111213
- 0739118900
- OCLC:
- 70836685
- Publisher Number:
- 9780739111215
- 9780739118900
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