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Women's Suffrage: The Complete Guide to the 19th Amendment
Tiffany K. Wayne - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This is the "everything" women's suffrage and 19th Amendment book, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional amendment that finally brought the vote to all American women.Primary sources that highlight the rhetoric of the women's suffrage... |
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Susan Ware - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.For far too long, the history of how American women... |
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Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
Ellen Carol DuBois - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil... |
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The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Vivian Gornick
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton - along with her comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthony - was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thin |
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Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
Jean H Baker - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover
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They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed... |
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is "an... |
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your... |
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Buckeye Women: The History of Ohio's Daughters
Stephane Elise Booth
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By the last two decades of the twentieth century, Ohio women had held positions as university presidents, chief executive officers, judges, superintendents of schools, and lieutenant governor. They had won Pulitzer Prizes and, in one case, the Nobel Prize for Literature.Bu |
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The Fight to Vote
Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From the president of NYU's Brennan Center for Justice and the author of The Second Amendment, the history of the long struggle to win voting rights for all citizens.In The Second Amendment, Michael Waldman traced the ongoing argument on gun rights from the Bill of Rights... |
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time.In this... |
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Landmarks of American Women's History
Page Putnam Miller
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Throughout history, women have often worked in informal ways and in modest conditions, frequently without monuments or grand examples of architecture preserved to commemorate their accomplishments. Landmarks of American Women's History describes the sites that represent a wide var |
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The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Lisa Tetrault - Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Format: Print book
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The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's... |
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Lisa McCubbin - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford, from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Presidents and Mrs. Kennedy and Me.Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's... |
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Lisa McCubbin - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford, from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Presidents and Mrs. Kennedy and Me.Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's... |
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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Geoffrey C Ward - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize... |
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Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights
Clare Cushman - CQ Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the Romantic Paternalism of the 19th century to Roe v. Wade and the panoply of hot-button women's issues before the Supreme Court in our age, Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights limns the cases, the ideas, and the people who have blazed the trail to equality. Co-published... |
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The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution
Michael Kaufman - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"For too long the struggle for the rights of women and girls was seen as women's business. Of course, it's equally men's business and stops being such a struggle when it's seen that way. This reframing gives us a chance to understand violence against women as deeply toxic for us all."... |
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Visionary Women
Andrea Barnet - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Four influential women we thought we knew well - Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters - and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women - linked not by friendship... |
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Voting Rights in America: Primary Documents in Context
Bridgett A. King - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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Through primary sources, this volume examines the history, evolution, and major contemporary controversies associated with voting rights in the United States, devoting particular attention to demographic groups including women, young people, people of color, and poor people.. Voting is often... |
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When Women Win: EMILY's List and the Rise of Women in American Politics
Ellen Malcolm - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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The dramatic inside story of the rise of women in elected office over the past quarter-century, from the pioneering founder of three-million-member EMILY's List - one of the most influential players in today's political landscape In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress,... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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