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Women's rights in the United States : a documentary history
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Women's rights in the United States : a documentary history

Author: Winston Langley; Vivian C Fox
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Series: Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues
Edition/Format: Book : English
Summary:
The passion, pain, victories, and disappointments of the struggle for women's social, political, legal, economic, and educational rights in America from colonial times through 1993 are dramatized in this comprehensive documentary history. A rich panoply of voices and viewpoints, from feminists of diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds to opposition leaders, make this an important resource for research and
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Winston Langley; Vivian C Fox
ISBN: 0313287554 9780313287558
OCLC Number: 29954326
Description: xxxiii, 356 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Document 1: Biblical Authority and Women's Rights -- Document 2: Commentaries on the Laws of England (William Blackstone, 1765) -- Document 3: The Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson (1637) -- Document 4: John Winthrop's View of a "Woman's Place" (1645) -- Document 5: A Seventeenth Century Quaker Women's Declaration (1675) -- Document 6: Interaction among Quaker Women: A Glimpse (1708-1726) -- Document 7: Letter to Catherine Ray (Benjamin Franklin, 1755) -- Document 8: An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex (Thomas Paine, 1775) -- Document 9: A Lack of Good Faith? (1776) -- Document 10: Sentiments of an American Woman (1780) -- Document 11: "On the Equality of the Sexes" (Constantia, 1790) -- Document 12: The Rights of Seneca Women (1790-1791) -- Document 13: Did Women Gain from the Revolution? (1790-1791) -- Document 14: Religion, Virtue and the Behavior of Women (1770) -- Document 15: Thoughts upon Female Education (Benjamin Rush, 1787).
Series Title: Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues
Responsibility: edited by Winston E. Langley and Vivian C. Fox.

Abstract:

The passion, pain, victories, and disappointments of the struggle for women's social, political, legal, economic, and educational rights in America from colonial times through 1993 are dramatized in this comprehensive documentary history. A rich panoply of voices and viewpoints, from feminists of diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds to opposition leaders, make this an important resource for research and student debate on landmark issues of social and political justice. Letters, personal narratives, policy statements, laws, court decisions, and even poetry are featured in the collection. Organized into five chronological periods, the 125 documents included here integrate the dynamics of the movement into the historical period in which they were written. Each period and each document is preceded by an explanatory introduction that puts it in historical context.

The collection provides many documents not found elsewhere and shows that the struggle for women's rights is a process that is still continuing as we approach the 21st century.

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