| Women's Rights in the United States: A History in Documents Contributor(s): Boylan, Anne M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195338294 ISBN-13: 9780195338294 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $47.51 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 323.340 |
| LCCN: 2014050095 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.8" W x 9.9" (1.60 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Women's Rights in the United States: A History in Documents uses a diverse collection of documents--including manifestoes, letters, diaries, cartoons, broadsides, legal and court records, poems, satires, advertisements, petitions, photographs, leaflets, maps, posters, autobiographies, and newspapers--to examine major themes in the history of women's rights and women's rights movements in the U.S. The documents encompass the experiences of women from a wide range of racial, ethnic, class, economic, sexual, marital, and social groups. The book covers such topics as organized social movements; changing definitions of rights and different women's access to rights; divisions among women within women's rights movements; global contexts for women's rights activism; and the question of what it means for women and men to be equal. Each chapter includes an introductory essay, and each document has a headnote or long caption. A picture essay illuminates how both suffragists and anti-suffragists employed cartooning to articulate their political positions. |