Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, Third Edition

Lynne Ford

Description

Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, Third Edition contains all the material a reader needs to understand the role of women throughout America's political history. This informative A-to-Z volume contains hundreds of entries covering the people, events, and terms involved in the history of women and politics.

Entries include:

• Abortion


• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez


• The birth control movement


• Black Lives Matter


• Hillary Rodham Clinton


• Deb Haaland


• Domestic violence


• Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)


• Glass ceiling


• League of Women Voters


• #MeToo movement


• Michelle Obama


• Sonia Sotomayor


• Elizabeth Warren


• and many more.

 

Sujets

• Political Science
• Histoire
• Women
• América
• History of the United States
• Woman
• Politics
• Feminism
• The Women
• American
• United States
• History
• American History

Informations

• Publié par: Infobase Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781646938216
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Contents Cover Copyright Introduction Entries Abbott, Edith Abbott, Grace abolitionist movement abortion Abrams, Stacey Abzug, Bella Achtenberg, Roberta acquaintance rape acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Adams, Abigail Adams, Annette Adams, Louisa Addams, Jane Adkins v. Children's Hospital affirmative action Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health Guttmacher Institute Albright, Madeleine Alcott, Louisa May "Alice Doesn t Day" Women s Strike alimony Allen, Florence Allen, Paula Gunn Allred, Gloria Alpha Suffrage Club Alvarez, Aida American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Birth Control League (ABCL) American Equal Rights Association (AERA) American Equal Rights Association (AERA) American Life League, Inc. (ALL) American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) Ames, Jessie Anderson, Eugenie Moore Anderson, Marian Andrews, Fannie Fern Anthony, Susan B. anti-lynching movement anti-suffragists antifeminism antimiscegenation statutes Armstrong, Anne Association for Women Journalists Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL) Atkinson, Ti-Grace Bachmann, Michele Baez, Joan Bagley, Sarah G. Baker, Ella Balch, Emily Greene Baldwin, Tammy Barcel , Gertrudis Barrett, Amy Coney Barton, Clara Bass, Charlotta Spears Beach, Amy Beal v. Doe Bean, Melissa Berkley, Shelley Berry, Mary Frances Bethune, Mary McLeod Biden, Jill Biggert, Judy "Bill of Rights for Women" birth control movement black feminism Black Lives Matter (BLM) black women s club movement Black Women s Health Imperative Blackburn, Marsha Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell, Elizabeth Blanchfield, Florence Aby Blatch, Harriot Stanton Bloomer, Amelia Blow, Susan Bly, Nellie bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) Bonney, Mary Bono, Mary Bordallo, Madeleine Boxer, Barbara Bradwell, Myra Brant, Molly Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic Breckinridge, Sophonisba Breedlove v. Suttles Brent, Margaret Reed bridefare Brown, Corrine Brown-Waite, Virginia Buck, Pearl S. Burns, Lucy Bush, Barbara Bush, Laura Byrne, Jane Cable Act Califano v. Westcott Cammermeyer v. Aspin Cantwell, Maria Capito, Shelley Capps, Lois Caraway, Hattie Wyatt Carson, Julia Carson, Rachel Carter, Lillian Carter, Rosalynn Catalyst Catt, Carrie Chapman Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) Center for Women Policy Studies Chapman, Maria Weston Cheney, Liz Chicago, Judy child care Child, Lydia Maria Child Support Enforcement Amendment chilly climate Chisholm, Shirley Christian-Christensen, Donna Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women (CACSW) citizenship restrictions for women Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1991 Clark, Septima Clay, Laura Cleveland, Frances Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton v. Jones Cohen v. Brown University Collins, Susan Colored Women s League Combahee River Collective comparable worth Comstock law Concerned Women for America (CWA) Congressional Caucus for Women s Issues Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Convention on the Political Rights of Women Coolidge, Grace Cortez Masto, Catherine covenant marriage coverture Craig v. Boren Crandall, Prudence Cubin, Barbara "Cult of True Womanhood" Cunningham, Minnie Fisher Curtis, Lucile Atcherson Dall, Caroline Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) Daughters of Liberty Daughters of Temperance Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Davis, Angela Davis, Jo Ann Davis, Susan Day, Dorothy "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" "Declaration of Rights of Women" Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) DeGette, Diana DeLauro, Rosa Dennett, Mary Ware Detzer, Dorothy Dewson, Mary Williams Dix, Dorothea Doe v. Bolton Dole, Elizabeth domestic violence domicile laws Dothard v. Rawlinson Douglas, Helen Gahagan Drake, Thelma Duckworth, Tammy Dulles, Eleanor Lansing Duniway, Abigail Scott Dworkin, Andrea Dyer, Mary Eagle Forum Eddy, Mary Baker Edelman, Marian Wright Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenstadt v. Baird Elders, Joycelyn Emerson, Jo Ann Emily s List England, Lynndie Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Equal Pay Act Equal Pay Day Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act (EPICC) Eshoo, Anna eugenics Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Faludi, Susan Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) family leave policy Family Support Act of 1988 Feinstein, Dianne Felton, Rebecca The Feminine Mystique feminism Fenwick, Millicent Ferguson, Miriam Ferguson v. City of Charleston Ferraro, Geraldine Fillmore, Abigail First Lady of the United States Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley Fonda, Jane Ford, Betty Foxx, Virginia Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) Freeman, Jo French, Marilyn Friedan, Betty Frontiero v. Richardson gag rule Gage, Matilda Joslyn Garfield, Lucretia Geduldig v. Aiello gender gap gender stereotypes General Electric Company v. Gilbert General Federation of Women s Clubs (GFWC) Giffords, Gabrielle Gilbreth, Lillian Gillibrand, Kirsten Gilligan, Carol Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Glaspie, April glass ceiling Glass Ceiling Commission Goldman, Emma Granger, Kay Granholm, Jennifer Grant, Julia Grasso, Ella Griffiths, Martha Grimk , Angelina Grimk , Sarah Moore Griswold v. Connecticut Grove City College v. Bell Guerrilla Girls Guinier, Lani Haaland, Deb Haley, Nikki Hamer, Fannie Lou Harding, Florence Harman, Jane Harriman, Pamela Harris, Kamala Harris, Katherine Harris, Patricia Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. Harris v. McRae Harrison, Anna Symmes Harrison, Caroline Hart, Melissa Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of PA Hayes, Lucy Height, Dorothy Hill, Anita Hill v. Colorado Hills, Carla Anderson Hirono, Mazie Hishon v. King & Spalding Hobby, Oveta Culp Hodgson et al. v. Minnesota et al Hoey, Jane Holm, Jeanne hooks, bell Hooley, Darlene Hoover, Lou Howe, Julia Ward Hoyt v. Florida Huerta, Dolores Hull-House Hutchinson, Anne Hutchison, Kay Bailey Hyde Amendment Immigrants Protective League (IPL) In the Matter of Baby M Independent Women s Forum (IWF) International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) International Women s Day (IWD) interspousal immunity Ireland, Patricia iron-jawed angels Johnson, Eddie Johnson, Eliza Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Nancy Johnson v. Calvert Jones, Stephanie Tubbs Jordan, Barbara Kagan, Elena Kaptur, Marcy Kassebaum, Nancy L. Kelley, Florence Kelly, Sue Kilpatrick, Carolyn King, Coretta Scott Kirkpatrick, Jeane J. Klobuchar, Amy Kreps, Juanita Morris Kunin, Madeleine May Ladies Association of Philadelphia LaHaye, Beverly Landrieu, Mary League of Women Voters Lease, Mary Elizabeth Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Lee, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lemons v. City and County of Denver Lenroot, Katherine lesbian separatism Liliuokalani Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Lincoln, Blanche Lincoln, Mary Todd Lockwood, Belva Lofgren, Zoe Loving v. Virginia Low, Juliette Lowell, Josephine Shaw Lowey, Nita Luce, Clare Boothe Lynch, Loretta Lyon, Mary MacKinnon, Catharine Madison, Dolley Malcolm, Ellen R. Maloney, Carolyn Mankiller, Wilma Mansell v. Mansell Mansfield, Arabella March for Women s Lives Married Women s Property Act Matalin, Mary Matsui, Doris McCarthy, Carolyn McCollum, Betty McGee, Anita McGrory, Mary McKinley, Ida McKinney, Cynthia Mead, Margaret Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson #MeToo movement Mikulski, Barbara A. Milholland, Inez military service, women and Millender-McDonald, Juanita Miller, Candice Millett, Kate Mink, Patsy Takemoto Minor v. Happersett Minor, Virginia Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan Mitchell, Maria Mitchell, Martha Mofford, Rose Monroe, Elizabeth Moore, Gwen Braun, Carol Moseley Mother Jones motherhood bind Mott, Lucretia Ms. Muller v. Oregon Murkowski, Lisa Murray, Judith Sargent Murray, Patty Musgrave, Marilyn Myers, Dee Dee Myrick, Sue Nannygate Napolitano, Grace Napolitano, Janet National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) National Association of Colored Women (NACW) National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) National Federation of Afro-American Women (NFAAW) National Federation of Business and Professional Women s Clubs National Organization for Women (NOW) National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women (NOBEL/Women) National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) National Woman s Loyal League National Woman s Party (NWP) National Woman s Rights Convention National Women s Conference National Women s Political Caucus (NWPC) Nestor, Agnes New Era Club New York v. Sanger Nixon, Pat Noonan, Peggy Norplant Northup, Anne Norton, Eleanor Holmes Obama, Michelle Oberlin College Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria O Connor, Sandra Day O Day, Caroline Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health O Leary, Hazel Omar, Ilhan Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy Operation Rescue opt-out revolution Orenstein, Peggy Orr v. Orr Ovington, Mary White Packard, Sophia Palin, Sarah Palmer, Alice Freeman Parks, Rosa Parrish, Anne patriarchy Paul, Alice Pelosi, Nancy Perkins, Frances Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Peterson, Esther Eggertsen Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Phillips v. Martin