The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History

Editor/Author Felder, Deborah G.
Publication Year: 2020
Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-57-859636-2
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Image Count: 532
Book Status: Available
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This essential book illustrates the important events and figures surrounding the suffrage movement; literature, art, and music; business leaders and breakthroughs; political history and office holders; advances in science and medicine; and other vital topics.

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Photo Sources
  • Timeline
  • Introduction
  • The Arrival of Women in America
  • The Arrival of Women in America
  • Women and the First European Settlements
  • Colonial Women in America
  • The Arrival of Women in New England
  • Courtship, Marriage, and Motherhood in the Colonies
  • The Struggle for Equality: The First Women's Rights Movement
  • The Abolitionist Movement and Equal Rights for Women
  • The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
  • Seneca Falls to the Suffrage Movement
  • The Final Battle for Suffrage
  • The Suffrage Parade of 1913
  • American Women Win the Right to Vote
  • Biographies
  • Women at Work
  • Women at Work
  • The Mill Girls
  • The First Women's Labor Movement
  • Early Twentieth-Century Women's Labor Movement
  • Garment Workers and the Great Uprising
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
  • The Protocol of Peace
  • Women at Work in Wartime
  • “We Can Do It!”: World War II
  • The President's Commission on the Status of Women
  • Biographies
  • The Second Women's Rights Movement
  • The Second Women's Rights Movement
  • Literature and Liberation
  • National Organization for Women
  • The Miss America Protests
  • The Equal Rights Amendment
  • The Legalization of Abortion
  • Postfeminism
  • Biographies
  • Literature
  • Literature
  • Biographies
  • Art and Applied Arts
  • Art and Applied Arts
  • Biographies
  • Media and the Performing Arts
  • Music, Dance and Theater
  • Film
  • Television
  • Biographies
  • Sports
  • Sports
  • Biographies
  • Science, Medicine, and Technology
  • Science, Medicine, and Technology
  • Biographies
  • Politics, Government, and the Law
  • Politics, Government, and the Law
  • Biographies
  • Religion
  • Religion
  • Biographies
  • Activists for Social Change
  • Activists for Social Change
  • The Temperance Movement
  • The Settlement Movement
  • The Woman's Peace Party
  • The Birth Control Movement
  • Biographies
  • Education
  • Education
  • Biographies
  • Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
  • Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
  • Biographies
  • The Military
  • The Military
  • Biographies
  • Explorers
  • Explorers
  • Biographies
  • Further Reading
  • About the Author
  • Also from Visible Ink Press