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Book

What is the women's rights movement?

Call Number

  • J 305.42 HOPK (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW)

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Publication Information

New York : Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2018]

Physical Description

107 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Summary

Chronicles the women's rights movement in the United States, from the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth century and the fight for equal rights in the 1960s to such present-day events as the Women's March in 2017.

Contents

  • What is the women's rights movement?
  • Early America
  • The Seneca Falls Convention
  • Elizabeth and Susan
  • A long, hard fight
  • Getting an education
  • Women at work
  • New century, new fight
  • Victory at last!
  • Women in World War II
  • The second wave
  • Title IX changes the game
  • Going forward.

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Added Authors

Laurie A Conley