History of women in the United States. 20, Feminist struggles for sex equality : historical articles on women's lives and activities / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Women's rights--United States.

Women's rights.

Sex discrimination against women--United States.

Sex discrimination against women.

Women--United States--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (551 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich, [Germany] : K. G. Saur, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Preface

Introduction

Feminist Struggles for Sex Equality

Feminist Friends: Agrarian Quakers and the Emergence of Woman's Rights in America / HEWITT, NANCY A.

Women's Rights and the Wrongs of Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America / BASCH, FRANÇOISE

Labor's True Woman: Domesticity and Equal Rights in the Knights of Labor / LEVINE, SUSAN

Sisters of the Grange: Rural Feminism in the Late Nineteenth Century / MARTI, DONALD B.

Populism and Feminism in a Newspaper by and for Women of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance, 1891-1894 / Brady, Marilyn Dell

The Anarchist-Feminist Response to the "Woman Question" in Late Nineteenth-Century America / Marsh, Margaret S.

Feminist Responses to "Crimes against Women," 1868-1896 / PLECK, ELIZABETH

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Feminist's Struggle with Womanhood / HILL, MARY A.

The Women's Trade Union League and American Feminism / JACOBY, ROBIN MILLER

Creating a Feminist Alliance: Sisterhood and Class Conflict in the New York Women's Trade Union League, 1903-1914 / DYE, NANCY SCHROM

Feminism as Life-Process: The Life and Career of Lucy Sprague Mitchell / ANTLER, JOYCE

Feminist Politics in the 1920s: The National Woman's Party / COTT, NANCY F.

The National Woman's Party and the Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1923 / GEIDEL, PETER

Feminist Against Feminist: The First Phase of the Equal Rights Amendment Debate, 1923-1963 / SEALANDER, JUDITH

Organized Women in Mississippi: The Clash over Legal Disabilities in the 1920's / SWAIN, MARTHA H.

Challenging "Woman's Place": Feminism, the Left, and Industrial Unionism in the 1930s / STROM, SHARON HARTMAN

Humor and Gender Roles: The "Funny" Feminism of the Post-World War II Suburbs / WALKER, NANCY

The Women's Community in the National Woman's Party, 1945 to the 1960s / RUPP, LEILA J.

Women Activists, Southern Conservatives, and the Prohibition of Sex Discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act / BRAUER, CARL M .

The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement / EVANS, SARA M.

Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All-Inclusive Sisterhood / DILL, BONNIE THORNTON

The Rise and Fall of Feminist Organizations in the 1970s: Dayton as a Case Study / SEALANDER, JUDITH / SMITH, DOROTHY

Feminism and the Contemporary Family / EASTON, BARBARA

A Response to Inequality: Black Women, Racism, and Sexism / LEWIS, DIANE K.

Copyright Information

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 26, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110978919

3110978911

OCLC:

979873992