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The eventual dwindling of the women’s rights movement was hastened by NOW’s singular focus on passage of theERA. Owing to the efforts of women such asBella Abzug,Betty Friedan, andGloria Steinem, the ERA passedCongressin 1972. But its ratification by the states became a rallying point for...
Gale offers an overview of history and issues related to women's rights, derived from scholarly sources and academic journals. Read about legislation, activism and more.
Learn about women's history including women's suffrage and famous women including Catherine the Great, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Elizabeth I, Susan B. Anthony and Queen Elizabeth II.
•1920-On August 26 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. After gaining the right to vote women’s rights organization did not simply disband and disappear. They then combined their considerable soci...
This course is intended for anyone with an interest in nineteenth or twentieth century history, the women’s suffrage campaign, or the history of women’s rights. By taking this course, you’ll further your knowledge of the fight for equality in the UK and gain contextual insights into perspe...
Apart from its sexual element, pornography became a powerful vehicle for social and political protest. It provided a vehicle for the exploration of daring ideas that were condemned by bothchurch and state, including sexual freedom for women as well as for men and the practices of contraception an...
On Women's History and Economic Historydoi:10.1080/03585522.1990.10408185WikanderUllaScandinavian Economic History ReviewWIKANDER, U. 1990. On women's history and economic history. Scandinavian Economic History Review 38, 65-71.
Because these stories, in all their nuances and varieties, are what map out and thread together women’s history. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist “How we treat disabled people, how we treat minorities, boils down to our fundamental beliefs...
science historians and philosophers have shown that the exclusion of certain people based on sex and race has influenced the science produced69. Recently, Casey Haines and colleagues showed a connection between an increase in women authors investigating female birdsong and a paradigm shift in this are...