Understanding Women's Rights (Personal Freedom & Civic Duty)

Teens today can hardly conceive of a world in which women did not have the right to vote and women's domain truly was the home. Showing the long way that American women have come, this book reviews the major events in the fight for women's rights. The narrative focuses on important leaders and the reforms that they demanded, and organized to win. The authors trace a fascinating path from the colonial period, when women's roles were highly circumscribed, to today's era of fifty-percent representation in the workplace. Women's rights in early America Women extend their influence Women's suffrage movement gathers steam New leadership emerges Women enter the modern age Second wave feminism A postfeminist era begins Women's rights today The Bill of Rights Glossary. Discusses The History Of Women's Rights In The United States, From The Colonial Era To The Modern Day, Including The Women's Suffrage Movement, Twentieth-century Feminism, And Modern Post-feminist America.