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Factory women's turnouts, women's independence, and the legacy of the American Revolution -- Antislavery women, public speaking, and equal rights -- The Seneca Falls Convention and the rise of the women's rights movement -- The Fourteenth Amendment and the "New Departure" -- Bradwell v. Illinois and Taylor v. Louisiana : women in the courtroom -- Women's sexuality before World War I : rape, prostitution, and reform -- The Atlanta laundresses' strike, self-help, and anti-lynching : African-American women's rights between emancipation and World War I -- Muller v. Oregon, Adkins v. Children's Hospital, and drafting an equal rights amendment : the equality-difference debate -- "The uprising of the 20,000" : working women, unions, and feminism -- "Family limitation" : the politics of birth control and women's rights -- "Votes for women" : the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment -- Title VII, sexual harassment, and EEOC v. Sears and Roebuck : women's rights in the modern workplace -- The right to privacy, abortion, and the debate over Roe v. Wade -- "The personal is political" and its aftermath : addressing sexual liberation and sexual violence -- Title IX and women in sport. |
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