Handbook of American Women's History

Handbook of American Women's History
Author: Angela Howard
Publisher: Garland Publishing
Total Pages: 792
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN:

An impressive encyclopedia of a wide range of topics: people, events, organizations, movements, and ideas. The signed articles average about half a page, are thoroughly cross-referenced, and refer as well to book-length treatments of the subject. Examples of entries are Georgia O'Keefe, menstrual cycle, European influences, Benjamin Rusk, Salem witch trials, Angela Davis, Bette Davis, Radcliffe College, Montana State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, cigar makers, aviation, slavery, Populist Party, Marine Corps, and Mary Baker Eddy. An excellent quick reference and initial bibliography for students, researchers, and journalists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975

Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975
Author: Barbara J. Love
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2006-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 025203189X

Documents the key feminists who ignited the second wave women's movement. This work tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few notable men who together reignited the women's movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws.