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.

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