Why ERA failed : politics, women's rights, and the amending process of the Constitution / Mary Frances Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Mary Frances.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Everywoman

Midland book ; MB 459.

A Midland Book ; MB 459

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equal rights amendments--United States.

Equal rights amendments.

United States.

Women--United States--Equal status, laws, etc.

Women.

Women's rights--United States.

Women's rights.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 147 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First Midland Book Edition.

Other Title:

Why Equal Rights Amendment failed

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1988.

Contents:

The Early History of the Constitutional Amendment Process

Adopting an Income Tax: The Sixteenth Amendment

Generating an Artificial Consensus: Prohibition and Its Repeal

Gaining Woman Suffrage: The Nineteenth Amendment

Social Reform between the Wars: Losing the Child Labor Amendment

ERA: Approval and Early Ratification Campaigns

ERA: Extension, Rescission, and Failture

Legal Developments in the Courts and in the States: The Brooding Omnipresence of ERA

Losing Consensus in the Congress.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-142) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0253204593

OCLC:

17151156