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National Woman's Party: Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Campaigning
Author: National Woman's Party: Elections to the National Council and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Campaigning
Author: The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism
Author: Holly J. McCammonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190204206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 841
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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism provides a comprehensive examination of scholarly research and knowledge on a variety of aspects of women's collective activism in the United States, tracing both continuities and critical changes over time.
Equal Means Equal
Author: Jessica NeuwirthPublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620970481
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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When the Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was president and All in the Family's Archie Bunker was telling his feisty wife Edith to stifle it. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by thirty-five states, just three short of the thirty-eight states needed by the 1982 deadline. Many of the arguments against the ERA that historically stood in the way of ratification have gone the way of bouffant hairdos and Bobby Riggs, and a new Coalition for the ERA was recently set up to bring the experience and wisdom of old-guard activists together with the energy and social media skills of a new-guard generation of women. In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognized by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA. Covering topics ranging from pay equity and pregnancy discrimination to violence against women, Equal Means Equal makes abundantly clear that an ERA will improve the lives of real women living in America.
National Woman's Party 1916-1981
Author: National Woman's PartyPublisher:
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Description: This items consists of correspondence, leaflets and statements of The National Women's Party relating to their lobbying for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) (ERA). A copy of the group's Campaign Text-Book, and information sheets of The Equal Nationality Treaty are also included, as is a copy of Suffragist, Vol VIII, Number 1, issued to celebrate the centenary of Susan B Anthony.
National Woman's Party: Materials Related to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
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Description: Materials and correspondence regarding the passage of the Equals Amendment in the United States Congress. Discussion of the amendment is featured alongside organisation memorandums about.
A Woman's Place Is in the House
Author: Barbara BurrellPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472024248
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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In this first comprehensive examination of women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Barbara Burrell argues that women are as successful at winning elections as men. Why, then, are there still so few women members of Congress? Compared to other democratically elected national parliaments, the U.S. Congress ranks very low in its proportion of women members. During the past decade, even though more and more women have participated in state and local governments, they have not made the same gains at the national level. A Woman's Place Is in the House examines the experiences of the women who have run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1968 through 1992 and compares their presence and performance with that of male candidates. The longitudinal study examines both general and primary elections and refutes many myths associated with women candidates including their ability to raise money and garner support from both interest groups and political parties. According to Burrell, election year 1992 was correctly dubbed the "Year of the Woman" in American politics--not so much because women overcame perceived barriers to being elected but because for the first time a significant number of women chose to run in primaries. Burrell's study examines the effects women are having on the congressional agenda and offers insight on how such issues as term limitations and campaign finance reform will impact on the election of women to Congress. Barbara Burrell (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is professor and director of graduate studies in the Political Science Department at Northern Illinois University where she teaches courses in public opinion, political behavior and women and politics.
Campaign Text-book of the National Woman's Party, 1916
Author: National Woman's PartyPublisher:
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The Suffragents
Author: Brooke KroegerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438466315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to support the women's demand. Together, they swayed the course of history.
Jailed for Freedom
Author: Doris StevensPublisher:
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Category : Suffrage
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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