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Description
This resource book provides tools for investigating and critically analyzing the evolution of the organized movement for women's rights in the United States throughout history.
The U.S. women's movement is both older than students may realize and farther from fully succeeding. The first organized conference for women's rights (Seneca Falls, 1848) occurred a full 70 years before women got the right to vote. Yet as late as the 1970s, women were routinely barred from graduate school, getting bank loans, or holding a job while pregnant.
For teachers wanting to give their students the whole story of the movement for women's rights in the United States, Conflict and Compromise: Women's Movement offers a unique and engaging solution.
Combining expert research and engaging activities, the resource book ranges from the beginnings of the women's movement in the 1830s to the era of the 1970s. Coverage centers primarily on two defining moments: the debate over excluding female suffrage from the Fifteenth Amendment in the 1870s (which gave the vote to African American men) and the emergence of women's liberation groups in the 1960s. By focusing on these moments, teachers can help students understand the difficulty women have had in securing greater equality, as well as ways in which contemporary political and social events profoundly shaped the women's movement as a whole.
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| Series Features |
In each volume:- An introduction gives a broad overview of the topic; use it to create a general lesson or lecture on the issue at hand, or to prepare students for the historical analysis portions
- "Throughout History" provides a narrative chronology—for example, the impact of civil rights initiatives on the women's movement, or the foreign policy approaches of various presidents; use this material to create a preparatory lecture for the resource book's interactive portions or as a handout
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Title Features |
- 75 primary sources, including 1960s women's movement posters, photos of leaders in the women's movement at national conferences, a Ms. magazine cover from 1972, a court transcript from Susan B. Anthony's trial, and dozens of political cartoons related to women and the fight over the Fifteenth Amendment
- Classroom activities include role-playing Susan B. Anthony's trial, working in small groups to review various political cartoons representing outspoken women in the late 1800s, and a simulation of the launch of the women's liberation movement
- A "Throughout History" section provides a narrative chronology of the women's movement from the 1830s to the present
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Highlights |
- Combines standards-based content from an accomplished women's history scholar and activities from award-winning teachers for more coverage of the women's movement than is found in standard textbooks
- Provides the historical context for understanding the women's movement of the mid-20th century as the culmination of a long process, not as a new phenomenon
- Gives teachers all the tools they need to make the women's movement a topic of fully-engaged classroom discussion and activities, helping students think critically about the topic
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