Women together : a history in documents of the women's movement in the United States / by Judith Papachristou.
Contains primary source material.
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New York :
Knopf,
1976.
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Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The women's movement is born: the 1830s
- Women and abolitionism
- Female antislavery societies
- Other abolitionist activity
- The Grimké sisters: women attacked
- Defense of female abolitionists
- The woman question evolves
- Toward a woman's movement
- Temperance and the movement
- The first decade: the 1850s
- The first women's rights conventions: 1848
- The movement grows: a decade of conventions
- Convention speeches
- Resolutions and goals
- Movement work
- Opposition
- Support
- Defeat, conflict, and schism: 1865-1869
- The Fourteenth Amendment
- The Equal Rights Association
- The Kansas campaign: 1867
- The struggle in New York
- Democrats and republicans
- Controversy over the Fifteenth Amendment
- Conflict deepens
- The movement is divided
- Division and reunion: 1869-1890
- American vs. national: one issue or many
- Sex rears its ugly head: the Woodhull affair
- Toward reunion of the movement
- Reunion
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union: 1874-1898
- Formation of the WCTU
- From temperance to suffrage
- The WCTU as a school for women
- The first suffrage drive
- Two strategies
- The federal approach: women try to vote
- The federal approach: a constitutional amendment
- the American approach : work in the states
- Limited suffrage
- Nonsuffrage activities
- Associationism and reform: 1890-1920
- New organizations
- Women's clubs and reform
- The General Federation of Women's Clubs
- Black women's organizations
- Radical change versus reform
- A brief history of wage-earning women: 1820-1914
- The first strike
- Organization and resistance
- Industrialization and change
- Women and the labor movement
- Ties between women
- class, race, ethnicity, and the women's movement: 1850-1920
- NAWSA and racial issues
- The southern strategy of the suffrage movement
- Concern for women workers
- Expediency and prejudice among women
- Building solidarity among women
- The TWCA
- The NWTUL
- The National Consumers' League
- The final suffrage drive
- New blood for the suffrage movement
- New tactics in suffragism
- the congressional union
- Picketing the White House
- Brutalized for suffrage
- NAWSA and the final strategy
- The Nineteenth Amendment
- Action, reform, and quiescence: 1920-1950
- The Women's Joint Congressional Committee
- Organizing for birth control
- The decline of reform
- The red smear attack
- The National Women's Party
- Debate over the Equal Rights Amendment
- A time of retrenchment
- 1930-1960: A changing world for women
- The revival of the women's movement: the 1960s and 1970s
- Toward a revival of the movement
- The movement develops two centers
- The battle against discrimination
- The radical second center
- Small women's groups
- Consciousness raising and sisterhood
- The movement in the seventies: two centers from one movement
- Organizations multiply
- Goals of the movement: economic change
- Political power
- Social change
- Sexual freedom
- The contemporary movement.