Women\'s Rights Movement - Annotated

¶ … Women's Rights Movement - Annotated Bibliography

Mezey, Susan Gluck. Elusive Equality: Women's Rights, Public Policy and the Law.

Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. 340 pages ISBN 158826176X.

This highly-authoritative work examines how United States government entities and institutions, being the executive branch, the U.S. Congress and state legislatures and the federal courts, have affected the legal status of women, both past and present. By examining relevant judicial and public policy issues, Susan Gluck Mezey explores the legal parameters of gender equality and inequality, beginning roughly with the abolition movement prior to the American Civil War and up to the early 20th century when women fought hard battles for suffrage equality. The text is divided into nine chapters and contains a complete bibliography and an index of pertinent federal/state cases related to women's rights in the U.S. The intended audience are general reader, scholars and historians. Clearly, as a highly-recognized scholar, Mezey's book contributes a great deal to the already burgeoning library on the history of women's rights in America. (Google Book Search:

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Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women's Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women's

Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. 120 pages ISBN 0838632238.

In this work, author Les Garner of the University of Iowa and Professor of Women's History in the United States explores the contributions toward a fuller understanding of the feminist side of the women's movement in the early decades of the 20th century. He also raises some very important questions, such as how did the women's movement define the oppression of women and how did it assess the roles of the sexes and the sexual division of labor? What perspectives were adopted on sexuality and reproduction? How did suffragist organize themselves and how did they view the value of legislative reform? The books is divided into eight chapters with appendices on the original "Women's Charter of Rights and Liberties" and "The Freewoman and Suffragism," both from the late 1890's. The intended audience is the general reader, scholars and historians. Overall, this work is highly-valuable as a source for all those wishing to understand the complexities of the women's movement in the 20th century.

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Law, Cheryl. Suffrage and Power: The Women's Movement, 1918-1928. New York:

I.B. Tauris & Company (Palgrave Macmillan), 1997. 260 pages ISBN