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A lively, accessible collection of essays exploring the history of the struggle for women''s rights in the United States from the colonial period to the present. The fight for women''s rights was one of the first topics explored by women''s historians when the field emerged in the 1970s. Current and authoritative, Women''s Rights: People and Perspectives shows just how complex and multifaceted our understanding of that fight has become. Women''s Rights spans the breadth of American history, from Native American women prior to colonization to women during the Revolution, Antebellum period, the Civil War, and the Gilded Age. Coverage of the 20th century moves from the Progressive Era to the Great Depression and World War II; from the emergence of modern feminism to the present. Throughout, it offers fascinating details of ordinary and extraordinary lives while charting the evolving roles of women in American society.>
List of contents
Series Introduction,Introduction,About the Editor and Contributors,Chronology,1 Native American Women,
Jeffrey M. Schulze2 Women of the Colonial Period,
Amy Meschke Porter3 Daughters of Liberty: Women and the American Revolution,
Pia Katarina Jakobsson4 Women Reformers and Radicals in Antebellum America,
Julie Holcomb5 School Girls and College Women: Female Education in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries,
Andrea Hamilton6 Suffragists,
Jessica O'Brien Pursell7 Clubwomen, Reformers, Workers, and Feminists of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,
Alison M. Parker8 Modern Women in the 1920s,
Susan Goodier9 Women Facing the Emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II: Women's Rights in the 1930s and 1940s,
Gillian Nichols-Smith10 Homemakers and Activists in the 1950s,
Kathleen A. Laughlin11 Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s,
Natasha Zaretsky12 Third Wave Feminists: The Ongoing Movement for Women's Rights,
Janice OkoomianPrimary Source Documents,References,Bibliography,Index,
