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The women's rights movement: opposing viewpoints
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An extensive collection of documents covering the women's rights movement from Colonial times to the present, with emphasis on current controversies. Opposing Viewpoints books are always of great u...
An extensive collection of documents covering the women's rights movement from Colonial times to the present, with emphasis on current controversies. Opposing Viewpoints books are always of great use in the classroom & for student reports. With original articles that present differing viewpoints on such subjects as whether women's suffrage was or was not a radical reform, students are able to examine varied opinions. Discussion notes for each chapter, chronology of women's rights in America, lengthy annotated bibliography, & index. Part of the American History series.
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- Creator
- Brenda Stalcup, book editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 156510367X, 9781565103672, 1565103661, 9781565103665
- OCLC
- ocm33948589
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-256) and index.
- Women should have more legal rights / Abigail Smith Adams -- Women do not need additional legal rights / John Adams -- Women should not take part in public reform / Catharine E. Beecher -- Women should take part in public reform / Angelina Emily Grimké -- Woman's sphere is fulfilling / Mrs. A.J. Graves -- Woman's sphere is restrictive / Margaret Fuller -- Men have not purposely subjugated women / Henry W. Bellows -- Men are responsible for women's oppression / William Lloyd Garrison -- Dress reform is vital to women's equality / Gerrit Smith -- Dress reform is not essential to women's equality / Francis D. Gage -- Divorce laws should be liberalized / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Divorce laws should not be liberalized / Antoinette Brown Blackwell -- Feminists should not object to the Fifteenth Amendment / Wendell Phillips -- The Fifteenth Amendment should include women / Parker Pillsbury -- Higher education harms women / Edward H. Clarke -- Higher education does not harm women / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- American women should have the right to vote / Julia Ward Howe -- American women should not have the right to vote / Emily P. Bissell -- Family size should not be limited / Theodore Roosevelt -- Women should have access to birth control / Margaret Sanger -- Women should be housewives and mothers / Jennifer Colton -- Women should work outside the home / Betty Friedan -- Abortion should be legalized / Marya Mannes -- Abortion should not be legalized / Robert F. Drinan -- A lesbian perspective on women's liberation / Radicalesbians -- Feminists do not have to adopt a lesbian lifestyle / Anne Koedt -- The Equal Rights Amendment should be passed / Margaret M. Heckler -- The Equal Rights Amendment should not be passed / Phyllis Schlafly --Suffrage was not a radical reform / William L. O'Neill --Suffrage was a radical reform / Ellen Carol DuBois