WOMENS RIGHTS UNITED STATES PH P

Women''s Rights in the United States: A History in Documents uses a diverse collection of documents--including manifestoes letters diaries cartoons broadsides legal and court records poems satires advertisements petitions photographs leaflets maps posters autobiographies and newspapers--to examine major themes in the history of women''s rights and women''s rights movements in the U.S. The documents encompass the experiences of women from a wide range of racial ethnic class economic sexual marital and social groups. The book covers such topics as organized social movements; changing definitions of rights and different women''s access to rights; divisions among women within women''s rights movements; global contexts for women''s rights activism; and the question of what it means for women and men to be equal. Each chapter includes an introductory essay and each document has a headnote or long caption. A picture essay illuminates how both suffragists andanti-suffragists employed cartooning to articulate their political positions.