Nancy Hendricks

Women's Equality in America (eBook, ePUB)

Examining the Facts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written in vivid prose and with a keen eye for detail, Women's Equality in America is a valuable resource for understanding the issues and trends that dominate public discourse in discussions of women's rights and gender equality in America.

Since its inception, the women's equality movement in America has been criticized for moving too slowly, moving too quickly, being too demanding, or not being demanding enough. Some of its goals have aroused passionate opposition in those who believed women's equality contradicted not only basic human biology, but also the word of God. Meanwhile, Americans voice starkly different opinions about where women stand in their quest for equality in American workplaces, classrooms, boardrooms, and homes.

Women's Equality in America: Examining the Facts presents sensibly organized and accurate summaries of the relevant facts concerning all of these claims and counterclaims. But while the volume is primarily concerned with providing an accurate picture of the state of women's equality in the 21st century, it also provides vital contextual coverage of major historical turning points and important historical figures, from leaders of the Seneca Falls women's rights convention in 1848 to the organizers of the #MeToo movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216183785
• Artikelnr.: 69442785

Autorenporträt

Nancy Hendricks holds a doctorate in education and is an award-winning author whose books include ABC-CLIO's Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life in American History (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

How to Use This Book Introduction Introduction 1 The Early Women's Equality
Movement in America Q1: Did support for women's equality in America exist
before the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention? Q2: Did the Seneca Falls
Convention launch the women's equality movement in America? Q3: Was women's
suffrage a popular demand at the Seneca Falls Convention? Q4: Did the
women's equality movement spring from abolitionism? Q5: Was the temperance
issue a factor in the early women's equality movement? 2 The First Two
Waves of the Women's Equality Movement in America Q6: Was the first wave of
feminism only about gaining the vote for women? Q7: Was racism a
significant factor in the women's equality movement? Q8: Was the women's
rights movement dormant between the first and second waves? Q9: Did The
Feminine Mystique inspire the second wave? Q10: Did women lead the
opposition to the first two waves of the women's equality movement? Q11:
Who supported the first two waves of the women's equality movement? 3
Women's Equality and the Equal Rights Amendment Q12: Is the Equal Rights
Amendment part of the Constitution? Q13: Does the Constitution already
provide women's equality? Q14: What arguments were used by opponents of the
Equal Rights Amendment? Q15: What were the main arguments raised by
supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment? Q16: Why did the Equal Rights
Amendment fail? Q17: Did the Equal Rights Amendment fail permanently? 4 The
Third and Fourth Waves of the Women's Equality Movement in America Q18: How
did the third wave build on the first and second waves of the women's
equality movement? Q19: Was the third wave of the women's equality movement
sparked by the Anita Hill hearings? Q20: What were the defining
characteristics of the third wave? Q21: Was the 'riot grrrls' subculture
characteristic of the third wave? Q22: What were the most significant
achievements of the third wave? Q23: Did the third wave have a cultural
impact on American society? Q24: Was the fourth wave the same thing as the
#MeToo movement? 5 Women's Equality and Intersectionality Q25: Is
intersectionality a new concept? Q26: How did intersectionality impact the
suffrage movement? Q27: Does intersectionality carry socio-economic
implications? Q28: What are arguments for and against intersectionality? 6
Women's Equality in Present-day America Q29: Have American women attained
socio-economic equality with men? Q30: Does women's equality damage
American families? Q31: Did the men's rights movement develop in response
to growing gender equality in the United States? Q32: What is the current
financial status of women compared to men? Q33: Have women reached gender
equality in political, educational, professional, and STEM fields? Q34: How
much more likely are women to experience sexual assault, violence and
online harassment than men? 7 Women's Equality and Abortion Q35: How
important was Roe v. Wade to the women's equality movement? Q36: What
impact did the reversal of Roe v. Wade have on the women's equality
movement? Q37: What are potential socio-economic implications of the 2022
Dobbs decision? Q38: How did the reversal of Roe v. Wade affect American
politics? Index About the Author