A lively, accessible collection of essays exploring the history of the struggle for women's rights in the United States from the colonial period to the present.
Crista DeLuzio, PhD, is associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
Containing analysis, anecdotes, illustrations, and primary source
documents, this volume is a valuable addition to any college,
academic, or high school library where patrons would need access
not only to writings about the issue of women's rights, but also
criticisms, analyses, anecdotes, and primary documents.
*ARBAonline*
This enlightening source is much more than a roll call of persons
and events that influenced women's rights and the suffrage
movement. . . . This title will be extremely useful for research,
and individual sections are interesting to peruse on their own. . .
. Informative sidebars will pique readers' interest in lesser-known
personalities. Primary-source documents, which are introduced with
informative paragraphs explaining their significance, allow
advanced researchers the opportunity to explore topics in more
depth.
*School Library Journal, Starred Review*
DeLuzio (Female Adolescence) collects the work of 12 field
specialists whose chapter-style essays mine the rich and diverse
veins of history that exist within the three chronological phases
of the women's movement. The guide opens with a time line that
charts the progress of notable females, e.g., Bessie Smith and
Sonia Sotomayor. Each subsequent chapter essay is a carefully
considered and engaging read that closes with a multipage
bibliography. A vital addition to all women's studies
collections.
*Library Journal*
In this social history, DeLuzio (history, Southern Methodist U.)
assembles 12 chapters by historians and women's studies scholars
from the US on the struggle for women's rights throughout American
history. Addressing the waves of feminism as well as the periods
between them, chapters survey prominent theorists, women, and
political organizers and leaders, as well as ordinary women who
played a role in women's rights. Topics include women's rights from
the colonial period up to the 1970s; issues such as suffrage,
economic independence, reproductive rights, and racial equality;
the rights of Native American women; education in the nineteenth
and twentieth century; the ongoing movement for women's rights in
the present day; and how multiple categories of identity affect
women's responses to social inequality and oppression. Primary
source documents such as the Declaration of Sentiments, the
National American Woman Suffrage Association's 'Why Women Should
Vote,' and a letter from the editors of BUST magazine are
included.
*Reference & Research Book News*
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