Poems, essays, personal testimonies, and historical documents are contributed by fifty individuals concerned with the liberation of women

Product Description: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) articulates what has now become a global norm. CEDAW establishes the moral, civic, and political equality of women; women's right to be free from discrimination and violence; and the responsibility of governments to take positive action to achieve these goals...read more

Product Description: The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage...read more

Product Description: Taking a broad view of the ongoing efforts to attain rights for women, this work provides unique insight into the context of the issues and reveals the range of factors that can influence a particular policy decision.• Carefully examines the major issues that helped frame women's rights in various key policy areas• Blends the practical explanations of the government's role in women's rights with the feminist theoretical foundations of the quest for these rights• Supplies crucial context for all women's rights policy statements, including information about the statements' authors as well as the political dynamics surrounding the issue• Presents coverage of policy statements that illustrate some of the key players in the attainment of women's rights and uniquely demonstrate the various ways women's rights have been framed across history• Clearly illustrates the relationship of women's rights issues to fields of study as disparate as business, history, healthcare, law enforcement, and political science, among others• Includes coverage of some of the major political challenges to women's reproductive rights witnessed in the previous decade• Considers some of the most difficult and controversial issues related to women's rights, such as the "war on women" and the country's pervasive rape cultur...read more

Product Description: If Americans generally support sexual equality in principle, they still disagree sharply over it in practice. For example, should military women engage in combat? Should same-sex marriages be allowed? American Debates on Sexual Equality addresses such questions in a debate format to promote discussion and critical thinking on gender-related issues...read more

Product Description: Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy...read more

Product Description: This series provides multiple views of momentous events in recent history; each book helps readers develop critical thinking skills, increase global awareness, and enhance their understanding of international perspectives about historic events...read more

Each volume in this contemporary series contains three sections: first is an introduction that clearly defines the issue and provides a brief history of the subject; the second section draws together significant primary source documents; and the third section gathers useful research tools such as facts and figures, brief biographies, a bibliography, and more.

Product Description: Merle Hoffman's life story is riveting. A former classical pianist, a self-made millionaire, and a feminist who found her life's work providing abortions, she has been a fearless crusader for women's right to choose.Over the years, Hoffman has used her entrepreneurial spirit to build one of the most comprehensive women's medical centers in the country...read more

Product Description: In August 1972, Newsweek proclaimed that “the person in Washington who has done the most for the women’s movement may be Richard Nixon.” Today, opinions of the Nixon administration are strongly colored by foreign policy successes and the Watergate debacle...read more

Product Description: After eight years of George Bush’s America, we are at a critical juncture in our nation’s history, when we can put forth a new and bolder kind of democracy. Just as the Civil Rights Movement opened the doors for blacks and other people of color, for women, for the LGBT community, the rise of Barack Obama to the presidency — and the post-Bush society we now encounter — opens new possibilities for our democracy...read more

Product Description: A tome of well-mannered high comedy, from the "unrivaled master of the comedy of manners" (Entertainment Weekly) In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen Bertie Wooster withdraws to the village of Maiden Eggesford on doctor's orders to "sleep the sleep of the just and lead the quiet Martini-less life...read more

This book explores the rise and fall of a grassroots, girl-centered organization, GirlZone, which sought to make social change on a local level. Whether skateboarding or designing Web pages, celebrating in weekend GrrrlFests or producing a biweekly RadioGirl program, participants in GirlZone came to understand themselves as competent actors in a variety of activities they had previously thought were closed off to them. Drawing on six years of fieldwork examining GirlZone from its inception until its demise, Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau offers insights on the current state of and study of literacy in the extracurriculum. She addresses how girls have become cultural flashpoints reflecting societal and particularly feminist anxieties and hopes about the present and the future. Sheridan-Rabideau does more than chronicle the pressure girls face; she offers advice on how feminists, cultural critics, and activists can effect social change on local levels, even in today s increasingly globalized contexts."

Product Description: Originally published: New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1871. [6], 148 pp. frontis. portrait. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Paperback. New. Reprint of the first edition. Written by one of the more radical women's rights activists of the nineteenth century, covers a wide range of topics concerning the role of women in American society...read more

Product Description: Originally published: New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1871. [6], 148 pp. frontis. portrait. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Hardcover. New. Reprint of the first edition. Written by one of the more radical women's rights activists of the nineteenth century, covers a wide range of topics concerning the role of women in American society...read more

Product Description: An impassioned argument for reproductive rightsIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing their agenda. But after Roe v. Wade, their determination to develop a respectable, nonconfrontational movement encouraged many of them to use the word choice--an easier concept for people weary of various rights movements...read more