Women's Rights

SHARON HARTMAN STROM teaches in the History Department at the University of Rhode Island. Her books include Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform; Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930, and co-edited book, Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social Change.

• Series Foreword Preface Chronology of Events Introduction Factory Women's Turnouts, Women's Independence, and the Legacy of the American Revolution Antislavery Women, Public Speaking, and Equal Rights The Seneca Falls Convention and the Rise of the Women's Rights Movement The Fourteenth Amendment and the "New Departure" Bradwell v. Illinois and Taylor v. Louisiana: Women in the Courtroom Women's Sexuality Before World War I: Rape, Prostitution, and Reform The Atlanta Laundresses' Strike, Self-Help, and Anti Lynching: African American Women and Their Strategies Between Emancipation and World War I Muller v. Oregon, Adkins v. Children's Hospital, and Drafting an Equal Rights Amendment: The Equality-Difference Debate "The Uprising of the 30,000": Working Women, Unions, and Feminism "Family Limitation": The Politics of Birth Control and Women's Rights "Votes for Women": The Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment Title VII, Sexual Harassment, and EEOC v. Sears and Roebuck: Women's Rights in the Modern Workplace The Right to Privacy: Abortion and the Debate over Roe v. Wade "The Personal Is Political" and Its Aftermath: Addressing Sexual Liberation and Violence Title IX and Women in Sport Supplemental Bibliography Web Sites Media Productions Index