Strom, Sharon Hartman.

Women's rights/ Sharon Hartman Strom. - Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003. - xxii, 353 p. ; 24 cm. - Major issues in American history .

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.

0313311358 (alk. paper)


Women's rights--History.--United States
Women's rights--History--United States

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