Women's rights (1429-2017) / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Series:

Defining documents in world history.

Defining Documents in World History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights--History--Sources.

Women's rights.

Genre:

Primary sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes (xvi, 527 pages)) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Defining documents in world history. Women's rights (1429-2017)

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; [Amenia, New York] : Grey House Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

"These volumes provide in-depth analysis of a broad range of historical documents from influential figures in women's history from the United States and around the world. The set provides detailed, thought-provoking analysis of: Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Jane Addams: Why Women Should Vote; The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen; Nineteenth Amendment; and Shirley Chisholm: The Black Woman in Contemporary America. From the European calls for the rights of women to the modern feminist movement, these volumes provide thoughtful analysis of documents and speeches allowing readers to gain a better understanding of the roles, opinions, and changing attitudes of and toward women in world history."-- Publisher description.

Contents:

Precursors : Joan of Arc: Letter to the English King ; The life of St. Teresa of Jesus ; Abigail Adams: "Remember the ladies": letter to John Adams ; Mary Wollstonecraft: A vindication of the rights of woman ; Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen ; Catharine E. Beecher: A treatise on domestic economy ; Margaret Fuller: Woman in the nineteenth century

Suffrage and sensibility : Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments ; Sojourner Truth : "Ain't I a woman?" ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Address to the New York Legislature ; Victoria Woodhull: "And the truth shall make you free" ; Victoria Woodhull: Lecture on constitutional equality ; Millicent Fawcett: "The electoral disabilities of women" ; Susan B. Anthony: Letters concerning casting a vote in the 1872 Federal Election ; Susan B. Anthony: "Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote?" ; Anna Julia Cooper: "Womanhood: a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race" ;Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Solitude of self" ; Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: Address to the First National Conferenceof Colored Women ; Susan B.Anthony: "The status of woman, past, present, and future" ; Mary Church Terrell: "The progress of colored women" ; Anna Howard Shaw: Address on the place of women in society ; Jane Addams:"Passing of the war virtues" ; Emma Goldman: "Marriage and love" ; Jane Addams: "Why women should vote" ; Margaret Sanger: "Sexual impulse - Part II" ; Emmeline Pankhurst: "Freedom or death" ; Margaret Sanger: "The prevention of conception" ; Alice Paul: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee ; Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ; Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: "The Negro woman and the ballot" ; Eleanor Roosevelt: "Women must learn to play the game as men do"

Equality now! : Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction to The second sex ; Women's Political Council Documents ; Equal Pay Act ; Betty Friedan: The feminine mystique ; Testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention ; Griswold v.Connecticut ; National Organization for Women (NOW) founding statement ; An act ending sex discrimination in government employment ; Position paper regarding the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ; Kate Millett: "Sexual politics" ; Ella Baker: "The black woman in the Civil Rights struggle" ; Gloria Steinem: "Living the revolution" ; Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment ; Equal Rights Amendment ; Title IX ; Roe v. Wade ; Indira Gandhi: "What educated women can do" ; Shirley Chisholm: "The black woman in contemporary America" ; National Women's Conference Plan of Action

The personal is political : Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ; Anita Hill: Opening statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas ; Planned Parenthood v. Casey ; Vice President Joseph Biden on Combating violence against women ; United States v. Virginia ; Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Concurrence in Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, v.Carhart ; European Union : Summary of Directive on Gender Equality ; Malala Yousafzai: Address at the UN 'YouthTakeover" Event ; Women in the Service Implementation Plan ; Hillary Clinton's Acceptance Speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention ; Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt ; Angela Davis: Women's March on Washington.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682175842

1682175847

OCLC:

1029316830