Research Catalog

Title

Women together : a history in documents of the women's movement in the United States / by Judith Papachristou.

Author

Papachristou, Judith

Publication

• New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
• New York : Random House

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitchell, Susan
• Ferrara, Lidia

Description

xiv, 273, vii pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

Contains primary source material.

Subject

• Feminism > United States > History > Sources
• Women's rights > United States > History > Sources
• Feminism
• Women's rights
• Vrouwenbeweging
• Feminism
• United States

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "A Ms. book."
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [267]-270.

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.

ISBN

• 0394494296
• 9780394494296

LCCN

75037709

OCLC

• ocm01863515
• 1863515
• SCSB-109036

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library