Feminism's Founding Fathers: the Men who Fought for Women's Rights
Title | Feminism's Founding Fathers: the Men who Fought for Women's Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Kaevan Gazdar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2016 |
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A History of Women in America
Title | A History of Women in America PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Hymowitz |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2011-08-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307790436 |
From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society. Note: This edition does not include photographs.
The Politics of Women's Studies
Title | The Politics of Women's Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Florence Howe |
Publisher | The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2000-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1558617868 |
The true stories of those bold women who espoused feminism in the world of academia and forever changed our educational system and culture. In the patriarchal halls of 1970s academe, women who spoke their minds risked their careers. Yet intrepid women—students, faculty, administrators, members of the community—persisted in collaborating on women’s studies programs. In doing so, they created a movement that altered paradigms, curricula, teaching styles, and content across disciplines. In these original essays “we hear the voices of feminists exhilarated by the opportunities and challenges of creating women’s studies programs in American colleges and universities, nurtured by the women’s movement of the 1970s,” from young graduate students and newly hired faculty to tenured professors in search of ways to improve their students’ capacities to learn, veteran academics at last witnessing change, and even a few administrators (Library Journal). In all of these programs, these “founding mothers” grappled not only with issues of gender, but with those of class, race, and sexuality in a decade infused with political unrest and questioning, when civil rights and anti-war activism, as well as feminism, shaped academic worlds.
Feminist Manifestos
Title | Feminist Manifestos PDF eBook |
Author | Penny A. Weiss |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 716 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147983730X |
This book is a collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings in over 50 countries over the course of three centuries. The manifestos are shown to contain feminist theory and recommend actions for change, and also to expand our very conceptions of feminist thought and activism. Covering issues from political participation, education, religion and work to reproduction, violence, racism and environmentalism, the manifestos challenge definitions of gender and feminist movements.
The Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists
Title | The Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Pace Vetter |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Feminism |
ISBN | 9781479867752 |
Recovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nation's formative years. This work traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political thinking. These women understood the relationship between sexism, racism, and economic inequality; yet, they are virtually unknown in American political thought because they are considered activists, not theorists. Their efforts to expand the reach of America's founding ideals laid the groundwork not only for women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery, but for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Title | Encyclopaedia Britannica PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1090 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The Feminine Mystique
Title | The Feminine Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Friedan |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 587 |
Release | 2001-09-17 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0393322572 |
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.