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How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights
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 the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to...
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"Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities...
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I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE DID THAT! offers a new and compelling perspective on conflict and competition among women in the workplace. Nan Mooney explores how and why some women hurt each other on the job, and what we can do to begin cleaning up the mess. Based on real stories from real women, I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE DID THAT! provides a provocative social and cultural exploration of the often troubled and painful dynamics that unfold among female coworkers.
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"Winner of the Philip E. Converse Award, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2015 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology" "Winner of the 2015 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association" "Co-Winners of the 2015 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was made part of the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for domestic and international peace. Blending history, fieldwork, theory,...
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Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. In the early part of the 20th century Emma Goldman would become one the most ardent supporters...
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First published in 1883, "Women and Representative Government" is an essay by Millicent Garrett Fawcett on the subject of women's social participation and representation in politics. The struggle for women's rights has been a long and hard-fought one, requiring the efforts of innumerable men and women throughout history. One of the most important battlefields in this fight has been that of law, which has acted as both oppressor and liberator of women....
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808—1877) was an English author and social reformer. After Norton left her husband in 1836, he sued her friend and Prime Minister Lord Melbourne for adultery. Though the claim was thrown out of court, Norton was denied a divorce and access to her children. In response to this Norton campaigned vehemently, which eventually led to the historic passing of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act...
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"On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship" is a 1789 essay by French philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743—1794), more commonly known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French mathematician and philosopher who espoused equal rights people of all genders and races, a liberal economy, free public instruction, and the importance of a constitutional government. Said to have been...
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L'ouvrage collectif Perspectives sociopédagogiques pour l'équité des femmes Cuba-Québec aborde la problématique de l'équité des femmes cubaines et québécoises selon des perspectives sociopédagogiques variées. Ces réflexions collectives aspirent à des changements sociétaux durables. L'équité des femmes y est traitée à travers neuf thèmes transversaux : 1) Leadership des femmes ; 2) Femmes dans l'enseignement supérieur et dans le...
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Many see their glory, but don't know their story.
Camouflaged Sisters chronicles the courageous path of fourteen women, who overcame various internal and external struggles during their military careers. These veterans give open accounts of how they adapted, achieved work-life balance, relied on their faith, and used mentorship as a vital tool in their success pre- and post-military career.
Expect to be, inspired by black women who fight for our...
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Has Arab Spring made life better for Muslim women? Has new media brought feminists together, or has it become a tool to organize the opposition? This essential collection is updated with a new introduction and two new essays, offering insider views on how Muslim women are navigating technology, social media, public space, secularism/fundamentalism, and citizenship. Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone is a historian at the American University School of International...
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"Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement." —Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School, author of The Feminist War on Crime
Through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh...
Through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh...
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Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. Questioning the politics of memory-making in relation to experiences of vulnerability and violence, this wide-ranging collection asks: How can memories of violence and its afterlives be mobilized for change? What strategies can disrupt and counter...
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Highly acclaimed by leading parenting authors, academics and activists, with a foreword from Naomi Stadlen, founder of Mothers Talking and author of What Mothers Do, and How Mothers Love.
If it is true that there have been waves of feminism, then mothers' rights are the flotsam left behind on the ocean surface of patriarchy.
For all the talk of women's liberation, when it is predicated on liberation from motherhood, it is no liberation at all. Under...
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A book of comedic personal essays about the history of the western world--a "femmoir" in which the author reconfigures famous and infamous historical events and personalities from her perspective as a feminist, a comedian, and a "failed academic." Sly, self effacing, and wickedly funny, these essays offer a bright new take on learning about history.
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Wu Zhao (624--705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she rise to power, and why was she never overthrown? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted history suggests that Wu Zhao drew on China's rich pantheon of female divinities and eminent women to aid in her reign. Wu Zhao could not obtain political authority through...
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The popular narrative about women's lives in Iran over the last forty years goes something like this:
"During the Pahlavi Monarchy, women were on an upward trajectory. In a nation on the cusp of modernity, women actively participated. They were given the right to vote and free to be in public without veils. They wore miniskirts on university campuses. Then came the Islamic Revolution in 1979, with Ayatollah Khomeini at the helm. The burgeoning freedoms...
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