Feminist Struggles for Sex Equality

Nachdruck 2012
ISBN: 978-3-598-41474-9
Verlag: De Gruyter Saur

Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 20, 537 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 965 g

Reihe: History of Women in the United States

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cott, Nancy F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Feminist Struggles for Sex Equality -- Feminist Friends: Agrarian Quakers and the Emergence of Woman's Rights in America -- Women's Rights and the Wrongs of Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America -- Labor’s True Woman: Domesticity and Equal Rights in the Knights of Labor -- Sisters of the Grange: Rural Feminism in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Populism and Feminism in a Newspaper by and for Women of the Kansas Farmers’ Alliance, 1891–1894 -- The Anarchist-Feminist Response to the “Woman Question” in Late Nineteenth-Century America -- Feminist Responses to “Crimes against Women,” 1868–1896 -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Feminist’s Struggle with Womanhood -- The Women’s Trade Union League and American Feminism -- Creating a Feminist Alliance: Sisterhood and Class Conflict in the New York Women’s Trade Union League, 1903–1914 -- Feminism as Life-Process: The Life and Career of Lucy Sprague Mitchell -- Feminist Politics in the 1920s: The National Woman’s Party -- The National Woman’s Party and the Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1923 -- Feminist Against Feminist: The First Phase of the Equal Rights Amendment Debate, 1923–1963 -- Organized Women in Mississippi: The Clash over Legal Disabilities in the 1920’s -- Challenging “Woman’s Place”: Feminism, the Left, and Industrial Unionism in the 1930s -- Humor and Gender Roles: The “Funny” Feminism of the Post-World War II Suburbs -- The Women’s Community in the National Woman’s Party, 1945 to the 1960s -- Women Activists, Southern Conservatives, and the Prohibition of Sex Discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- The Origins of the Women’s Liberation Movement -- Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All-Inclusive Sisterhood -- The Rise and Fall of Feminist Organizations in the 1970s: Dayton as a Case Study -- Feminism and the Contemporary Family -- A Response to Inequality: Black Women, Racism, and Sexism -- Copyright Information -- Index