Women's rights

About This Book

"The 19th Amendment secured for women the right to vote in 1920 - a triumph nearly 80 years in the making. A half-century later in the 1970s, the fight for women's rights was one of the first topics explored by the emerging field of women's history. Current and authoritative, Women's Rights: People and Perspectives shows just how complex and multifaceted that fight was." "Women's Rights spans the breadth of American history, from Native American women prior to colonization to women during the Revolution, Antebellum period, the Civil War, and the Gilded Age. Coverage of the 20th century moves from the Progressive Era to the Great Depression and World War II and from the emergence of modern feminism to the present. Throughout, it offers details of ordinary and extraordinary lives while charting the evolving roles of women in American society."--Jacket.