Women Together. A History In Documents Of The Women's Movement In The United States

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1976
Edition: First Edition

Description: 273 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: For the first time, the crucial documents of the Women's Movement in the United States, from its beginnings more than 180 years ago, are brought together in a single volume to show the myriad ways in which American women, actingtogether, have struggled to achieve social, political, and economic equality and independence.From the Seneca Falls Convention to NOW and the new proliferation of women's groups, from Lucy Stone and Margaret Sanger to the spokes-women of the 197O's, the record unfolds-in325 vital letters, speeches, press clippings, resolutions, flyers, and calls to action, interwoven with a running commentary by a leading specialistin women's studies, and illustrated with 135 facsimiles, cartoons, line drawings, and photographs. Here, recorded in action, are the earliest American militants, the women who, drawn out of their kitchens and parlors in the mid-1800's by abolitionist fervor to campaign on behalf of the slaves, and who, finding themselves denied the rights of free men-litera|ly forbiddento speak in public-first began to organize for their own rights...the little-known feminist triumphs of the post-Civil War era...the earlyattempts to achieve woman suffrage. . . the feminist basis of the temperance movement (women fighting for legal redress against drunken husbands)...the almost forgotten accomplishments at the turn of the century, when thousands of women in newly organized clubs worked to reform labor laws, to protect consumers, to attain professional dignity for themselves...the triumphant battle, in this century, for the vote... and the spectacular gains (and occasional setbacks) of the contemporarymovement.Here, set in their historical context, are the words, the deeds, the faces, the thoughts, the feelings of the generations of women-the famous and the unknown-fighting for equality. An invaluable book for the student of women's history-a large and moving experience for all who care about the rights of women.

ISBN: 0394494296