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Documenting the history of the American women''s rights movement from 1945 through the 2016 election, this reference offers a crucial and objective look at the changing strategies, goals, and challenges of American feminists. Many aspects of women''s lives in the mid-twentieth century-including legal subjugation to their husbands, limitations in education and employment, and restrictions on sexual and reproductive autonomy-are unthinkable today. Women''s lives improved only through the concerted action of several generations of activists, whose work lies at the center of this volume. This book traces women''s changing relationships to family, work, education, government, and sexuality from 1945 through the 2016 election.The book begins with an overview essay that places the women''s rights movement in its historical context. This is followed by a chronology offering concise profiles of key events. A series of chapters then discusses the history of the women''s rights movement since 1945 and what the movement has accomplished. Biographical entries profile key figures involved in the movement, and a selection of primary source documents gives first-hand accounts of the movement. An annotated bibliography directs readers to additional sources of information.>
List of contents
Series Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
Chapter 1. Left and Labor Feminism in the Cold War
Chapter 2. Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 3. A Civil Rights Movement for Women
Chapter 4. The Women's Liberation Movement
Chapter 5. Second-Wave Feminism and the Rights Revolution
Chapter 6. Conservative Women and Backlash
Chapter 7. Culture and Conflict in the Second Wave
Chapter 8. American Feminism at the End of the Twentieth Century
Epilogue
Biographical Essays
Primary Documents
Annotated Bibliography
Index
About the author
Christina G. Larocco, PhD, is editor of the
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and scholarly programs manager at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
