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Women's rights/ Sharon Hartman Strom.

By: Strom, Sharon HartmanMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Major issues in American historyPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003Description: xxii, 353 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0313311358 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Women's rights -- United States -- History | Women's rights -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.420973

Contents:

Factory women's turnouts, women's independence, and the legacy of the American Revolution -- Antislavery women, public speaking, and equal rights -- The Seneca Falls Convention and the rise of the women's rights movement -- The Fourteenth Amendment and the "New Departure" -- Bradwell v. Illinois and Taylor v. Louisiana : women in the courtroom -- Women's sexuality before World War I : rape, prostitution, and reform -- The Atlanta laundresses' strike, self-help, and anti-lynching : African-American women's rights between emancipation and World War I -- Muller v. Oregon, Adkins v. Children's Hospital, and drafting an equal rights amendment : the equality-difference debate -- "The uprising of the 20,000" : working women, unions, and feminism -- "Family limitation" : the politics of birth control and women's rights -- "Votes for women" : the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment -- Title VII, sexual harassment, and EEOC v. Sears and Roebuck : women's rights in the modern workplace -- The right to privacy, abortion, and the debate over Roe v. Wade -- "The personal is political" and its aftermath : addressing sexual liberation and sexual violence -- Title IX and women in sport.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.420973 STR/W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P22425

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

Factory women's turnouts, women's independence, and the legacy of the American Revolution --
Antislavery women, public speaking, and equal rights --
The Seneca Falls Convention and the rise of the women's rights movement --
The Fourteenth Amendment and the "New Departure" --
Bradwell v. Illinois and Taylor v. Louisiana : women in the courtroom --
Women's sexuality before World War I : rape, prostitution, and reform --
The Atlanta laundresses' strike, self-help, and anti-lynching : African-American women's rights between emancipation and World War I --
Muller v. Oregon, Adkins v. Children's Hospital, and drafting an equal rights amendment : the equality-difference debate --
"The uprising of the 20,000" : working women, unions, and feminism --
"Family limitation" : the politics of birth control and women's rights --
"Votes for women" : the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment --
Title VII, sexual harassment, and EEOC v. Sears and Roebuck : women's rights in the modern workplace --
The right to privacy, abortion, and the debate over Roe v. Wade --
"The personal is political" and its aftermath : addressing sexual liberation and sexual violence --
Title IX and women in sport.

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