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What is the women's rights movement? / by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by Laurie A. Conley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Who HQ | What was--?Publisher: New York : Penguin Workshop, aqn imprint of Penguin Random House, [2018]Description: 107 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781524786298 (paperback)
  • 1524786292 (paperback)
  • 9781524786311 (library binding)
  • 1524786314 (library binding)
  • 9780780426009 (PermaBound)
Other title:
  • Women's rights movement
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.420973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1410 .H66 2018
Contents:
What is the women's rights movement? -- Early America -- The Seneca Falls Convention -- Elizabeth and Susan -- A long, hard fight -- Getting an education -- Women at work -- New century, new fight -- Victory at last! -- Women in World War II -- The second wave -- Title IX changes the game -- Going forward.
Summary: "From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, women throughout US history have fought for equality ... Hopkinson chronicles the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were demanding the right to vote. She explores the 1960s, which pushed equal rights and opportunities for women--both at home and in the workplace--even further, and then moves toward present-day events, including the Women's March that took place all across the United States in 2017"--Publisher marketing.
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Books Books Riverfield Country Day School EZ Biography Biography Collection BIO Mov (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available RCDS95010453
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-107).

What is the women's rights movement? -- Early America -- The Seneca Falls Convention -- Elizabeth and Susan -- A long, hard fight -- Getting an education -- Women at work -- New century, new fight -- Victory at last! -- Women in World War II -- The second wave -- Title IX changes the game -- Going forward.

"From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, women throughout US history have fought for equality ... Hopkinson chronicles the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were demanding the right to vote. She explores the 1960s, which pushed equal rights and opportunities for women--both at home and in the workplace--even further, and then moves toward present-day events, including the Women's March that took place all across the United States in 2017"--Publisher marketing.

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