women’s rights movement: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Linda Nicholson (ed.), The Second Wave (1997), is a collection of the major essays of feminist theory from the 1960s on, including works by Shulamith Firestone, Carol Gilligan, and Simone de Beauvoir. Alison M. Jaggar and Paula S. Rothenberg (eds.), Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between Women and Men, 3rd ed. (1993), discusses contemporary feminist approaches to such diverse issues as housework, male-female conversations, sexual harassment, violence against women, and motherhood while providing an overview of feminist theories that range from Marxist to conservative. Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 2nd ed. (2000), describes how mainstream feminism’s white middle-class leadership marginalizes women of other cultures in the modern movement for women’s liberation.
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| Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - Betty Friedan and the Womens Movement. | Nov 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Louis Pressbooks - American History to 1865 - Womens Rights. | Apr 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - American Government 3e - The Fight for Womens Rights. | Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - History in a Nutshell - Women's Suffrage Movement. | Jan 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sci LibreTexts - Culture. | Nov 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Feminism, womens movements and women in movement. | Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The womens liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 19681985. | Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at American University Washington College of Law - White Silence and Violence: Positionality and Storytelling in Womens Rights Movements (PDF). | Jun 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Wisconsin�Madison - The Nonviolence Project - The History of the Women�s Rights Movement. | Apr 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ohio State Uinversity - Origins - The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement. | Dec 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage Newfoundland and Labraddor - The Modern Women's Movement. | Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: UN Women - Women of the world, unite! | Jul 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Archives - Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment. | May 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NCpedia - ANCHOR - The Women's Movement. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - The Complex History of the Women�s Suffrage Movement. | Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Council of Europe - Feminism and Women�s Rights Movements. | Jan 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Brookings - Leaving all to younger hands: Why the history of the women's suffragist movement matters. | Dec 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: 64 Parishes - Women's Rights Movement. | Oct 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Women�s Movements in Canada: 1960�85. | Aug 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Library - Timeline of the Women's Liberation Movement. | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women's History Alliance - History of the Women's Rights Movement. | Dec 02, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Women in the Civil Rights Movement. | Aug 18, 2022 | ||
| Changed “feminisms” to “feminists” and noted that Norma McCorvey claimed she was paid to support the anti-abortion cause. | Nov 06, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. House of Representatives - Exhibitions & Publications - The Women's Rights Movement, 1848�1920. | Mar 05, 2020 | ||
| Article revised to clearly identify the women's rights movement as a historical social movement. | Feb 13, 2019 | ||
| Removed image of Women's March in Washington, D.C., 2017. | Feb 13, 2019 | ||
| Article title changed from "women's movement" to "women's rights movement." | Feb 13, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - Second Wave Feminism. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Second-wave feminism. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 09, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 08, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Women's Movements in Canada. | Feb 06, 2013 | ||
| Added video of Congressional debates on Equal Rights amendment. | Sep 01, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 19, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 27, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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