Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
Editor/Author
Ford, Lynne E.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Facts On File
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4381-4187-9
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, Second Edition contains all the material a reader needs to understand the role of women throughout America's political history.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A
- Abbott, Edith
- Abbott, Grace
- abolitionist movement
- abortion
- 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
- B
- Bachmann, Michele
- Baez, Joan
- Bagley, Sarah G.
- Baker, Ella
- Balch, Emily Greene
- Baldwin, Tammy
- Barceló, Gertrudis
- Barton, Clara
- Bass, Charlotta Spears
- Beach, Amy
- Beal v. Doe
- Bean, Melissa
- Berkley, Shelley
- Berry, Mary Frances
- Bethune, Mary McLeod
- Biggert, Judy
- “Bill of Rights for Women”
- birth control movement
- black feminism
- 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
- C
- 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
- 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
- covenant marriage
- coverture
- Craig v. Boren
- Crandall, Prudence
- Cubin, Barbara
- “Cult of True Womanhood”
- Cunningham, Minnie Fisher
- Curtis, Lucile Atcherson
- D
- 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
- Dulles, Eleanor Lansing
- Duniway, Abigail Scott
- Dworkin, Andrea
- Dyer, Mary
- E
- 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
- F
- 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
- G
- 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
- Grimké, Angelina
- Grimké, Sarah Moore
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Grove City College v. Bell
- Guerrilla Girls
- Guinier, Lani
- H
- Haley, Nikki
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Harding, Florence
- Harman, Jane
- Harriman, Pamela
- 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
- 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
- I
- 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
- J
- Johnson, Eddie
- Johnson, Eliza
- Johnson, Lady Bird
- Johnson, Nancy
- Johnson v. Calvert
- Jones, Stephanie Tubbs
- Jordan, Barbara
- K
- Kagan, Elena
- Kaptur, Marcy
- Kassebaum, Nancy L.
- Kelley, Florence
- Kelly, Sue
- Kilpatrick, Carolyn
- King, Coretta Scott
- Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.
- Kreps, Juanita Morris
- Kunin, Madeleine May
- L
- 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
- Lyon, Mary
- M
- 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
- 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
- N
- 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
- O
- Obama, Michelle
- Oberlin College
- O’Connor, Sandra Day
- O’Day, Caroline
- Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
- O’Leary, Hazel
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
- Operation Rescue
- opt-out revolution
- Orenstein, Peggy
- Orr v. Orr
- Ovington, Mary White
- P
- 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 Marietta Corp.
- Phyllis Schlafly Report
- Pierce, Jane
- Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce
- pink-collar ghetto
- pipeline thesis
- Pittsburgh Press v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA)
- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
- Pocahontas
- Polk, Sarah Childress
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act
- President's Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW)
- Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
- prostitution
- protective legislation
- Pryce, Deborah
- Q
- Quinton, Amelia Stone
- R
- Rankin, Jeannette
- Ray, Charlotte
- Ray, Dixy Lee
- Reagan, Nancy
- Redstockings
- Reed v. Reed
- Reno, Janet
- reproductive technology
- Rice, Condoleezza
- Rice, Susan
- Richards, Ann
- Richards, Ellen
- right to life movement
- Rodgers, Cathy McMorris
- Roe v. Wade
- Roosevelt, Edith
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana
- Rosenberg, Anna
- Rosenfeld v. Southern Pacific Company
- “Rosie the Riveter”
- Ross, Nellie Tayloe
- Rostker v. Goldberg
- Roybal-Allard, Lucille
- Ruffin, Josephine
- Rust v. Sullivan
- S
- Sacajawea
- Sage, Margaret
- same-sex marriage
- Sánchez, Linda
- Sanchez, Loretta
- Sandlin, Stephanie Herseth
- Sanger, Margaret
- Schakowsky, Jan
- Schlafly, Phyllis
- Schmidt, Jean
- Schroeder, Patricia
- Schultz, Debbie Wasserman
- Schwartz, Allyson
- Sebelius, Kathleen
- Seneca Falls Convention
- separate spheres ideology
- Seton, Elizabeth Ann
- settlement house movement
- Seven Sisters colleges
- sexual harassment
- Shaw, Anna Howard
- Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act of 1921
- single-sex education
- Slaughter, Louise
- Smeal, Eleanor
- Smedley, Agnes
- Smith, Margaret Chase
- Smith, Mary Louise
- Snowe, Olympia J.
- Social Security and women
- Solis, Hilda
- Solomon, Hannah
- Sotomayor, Sonia
- Southern Women's League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment
- Stabenow, Debbie
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Stanton v. Stanton
- state status of women commissions
- Steinem, Gloria
- Stenberg v. Carhart
- Stone, Lucy
- STOP ERA
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- suffrage
- surrogacy
- Susan B. Anthony List
- T
- Taft, Helen
- Tailhook scandal
- Take Our Daughters to Work Day
- Tarbell, Ida
- Tauscher, Ellen
- Taylor, Margaret
- Taylor v. Louisiana
- temperance movement
- Black, Shirley Temple
- Terrell, Mary Church
- third-wave feminism
- Thomas, Helen
- Thomas, Martha Carey
- Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Tillmon, Johnnie
- Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Totenberg, Nina
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
- Truman, Bess
- Truth, Sojourner
- Tubman, Harriet
- Tyler, Julia Gardiner
- Tyler, Letitia
- U
- UAW v. Johnson Controls, Inc.
- United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)
- United Nations Decade for Women
- United States v. Commonwealth of Virginia
- United States v. Susan B. Anthony
- V
- Velázquez, Nydia
- Villard, Fanny
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
- Voluntary Parenthood League (VPL)
- Vorchheimer v. School District of Philadelphia
- W
- wage gap
- Walker, Mary Edwards
- Warren, Elizabeth
- Warren, Mercy Otis
- Washerwomen's Strike of 1881
- Washington, Martha
- Waters, Maxine
- Watson, Diane
- Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
- Weddington, Sarah
- Weeks v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
- Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
- welfare policy
- welfare rights movement
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- White House Project
- Whitman, Christine Todd
- Whitner v. South Carolina
- widow's tradition
- Willard, Emma
- Willard, Frances E.
- Wilson, Edith
- Wilson, Ellen
- Wilson, Heather
- Winnemucca, Sarah
- “The Winning Plan”
- WISH List
- Woman Suffrage Party
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
- Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES)
- Women of All Red Nations (WARN)
- Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
- Women's Army Corps (WACS)
- Women's Bureau
- Women's Campaign Fund (WCF)
- Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA)
- Women's Equity Action League (WEAL)
- women's involvement in politics
- Women's Peace Party (WPP)
- Women's Political Union
- Woodhull, Victoria
- Woodward, Charlotte
- Woolsey, Lynn
- Wright, Frances
- Y
- Yard, Molly
- “Year of the Woman”
- Z
- Zbaraz v. Hartigan