Public Women, Public Words: 1900 to 1960
Author | : John Pettegrew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Pettegrew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dawn Keetley |
Publisher | : Madison House Pub |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780945612452 |
This final volume in the Public Women, Public Words series focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s; reflects the unprecedented range of women's issues taken up by feminists during the 1970s and beyond; and looks toward a third feminist wave for the new millennium.
Author | : Dawn Keetley |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 9780742522251 |
An expansive assemblage of historical sources recounts a public history written and spoken by women from colonial America to the end of the 19th century. Introductions to each of the sections place the documents (which include little-known texts as well as the classics) within their cultural and historical context, providing biographical information for each author. The texts are ordered chronologically, often subdivided by topics such as revolutionizing the family and relations between the sexes; education and women's literary culture; the anti-slavery movement; suffrage and other essential rights; and the professions and higher education. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author | : Glenna Matthews |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-04-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0199951314 |
This richly woven history ranges from the seventeenth century to the present as it masterfully traces the movement of American women out of the home and into the public sphere. Matthews examines the Revolutionary War period, when women exercised political strength through the boycott of household goods and Elizabeth Freeman successfully sued for freedom from enslavement in one of the two cases that ended slavery in Massachusetts. She follows the expansion of the country west, where a developing frontier attracted strong, resourceful women, and into the growing cities, where women entered public life through employment in factories and offices. Matthews illuminates the contributions of such outstanding Civil War women as Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke, who supervised a cattle drive down the banks of the Mississippi so that soldiers would have fresh milk; Clara Barton, whose humanitarian work on behalf of the International Red Cross led her to become the first American woman to serve as official representative of the federal government; and Sojourner Truth, the impassioned black orator who devoted herself to emancipation. And Matthews brings the narrative to the 1970s, detailing the growing presence of women in American politics--from the suffrage marches of the early twentieth century, to the courageous stands women took during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. A fascinating and perceptive look at women throughout our history, The Rise of Public Woman offers an important perspective on the changing public role of women in the United States.
Author | : Dawn Keetley |
Publisher | : Madison House Publishers, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This final volume in the Public Women, Public Words series focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s; reflects the unprecedented range of women's issues taken up by feminists during the 1970s and beyond; and looks toward a third feminist wave for the new millennium.
Author | : John Pettegrew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Holly J. McCammon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0190876573 |
The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote. The struggle for suffrage lasted over six decades and involved more than a million women; yet, even at the moment of the amendment's enactment, women's activists disagreed heartily over how much had been achieved, whether it was necessary for women to continue organizing for political rights, and what those political rights would bring. Looking forward to the 100-year anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, this collection of original essays takes a long view of the past century of women's political engagement to gauge how much women have achieved in the political arena. The volume looks back at the decades since women won the right to vote to analyze the changes, developments, and even continuities in women's roles in the broad political sphere. Ultimately, the book asks two important questions about the last 100 years of women's suffrage: 1) How did the Nineteenth Amendment alter the American political system? and 2) How has women's engagement in politics changed over the last 100 years? As the chapters reveal, while women have made substantial strides in the political realm--voting at higher rates than men and gaining prominent leadership roles--barriers to gender equality remain. Women continue to be underrepresented in political office and to confront gender bias in a myriad of political settings. The contributors also remind us of the important understanding to be gained from an intersectional perspective to women's political engagement. In particular, several chapters discuss the failure of the Nineteenth Amendment to provide full political rights and representation to African American, Latina, and poorer women. The work also considers women's extra-institutional activism in a wide variety of settings, including in the feminist, civil rights, environmental, and far-right movements. As the volume traces women's forceful presence and limitations in politics over the past century, it also helps us look forward to consider the next 100 years: what additional victories might be won and what new defeats will need women's response?
Author | : Alice Fahs |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807834963 |
Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community
Author | : Isabel Heinemann |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2023-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3111036162 |
Clashes over the American family and its values have always implicitly or explicitly addressed issues of gender and highlighted the significance of present and future families to American society. This is the insight underpinning Isabel Heinemann’s groundbreaking study, which traces, over the course of the twentieth century, debates on the family and its role; the relationship between the individual and society; and individual decision-making rights as well as their denial or curtailment. Unpacking these issues in a vivid and innovative analysis, the book recounts the prehistory of current conflicts over the family and gender while illuminating the relationship between social change, normative shifts, and the counter-movements spawned in response to them.
Author | : Erica J. Ryan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-09-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
This comprehensive history of America in the 1920s presents the decade's most compelling controversies as precursors to today's culture wars. Americans have been embroiled in debate over culturally significant issues including race and immigration, gender and sexuality, and morality and religion for decades. American culture as we know it is an amalgamation of generations of Americans' voices in these national debates, many of which began in the 1920s. This book provides a detailed account of 1920s America within the context of these issues. The first on its subject written by a historian in almost 20 years, it offers a fresh perspective of America during the Roaring Twenties and on the history of the very same social and political battles we struggle with today. Useful for students and history enthusiasts alike, this work gives readers a holistic view of a popular decade and encourages discussion about its continued relevance to modern society. Other important topics covered include city values versus rural values, creationism versus evolutionism, the modern woman, and Prohibition.