Add to ORKGAlmost a full century in the making, the campaign for an ERA far exceeded in longevity the campaign for woman suffrage, however much a “logical next step” women\u27s equality seemed to some following the spectacular achievement of the Nineteenth Amendment. The history of the amendment reveals how resistant to the idea of equality between men and women a political system -- even one that includes women as voters -- can be. In this chapter, we re-examine the route taken by the ERA through its many permutations in the century since the passage of woman suffrage. Proposed by Alice Paul in 1923 and immediately opposed by social feminists advocating protective labor laws, the ERA wound itself in and out of feminist, conservative, and public favor...
Professor Jones examines efforts to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment which ended unsuccessf...
The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to add to an understanding of the ideas and arguments us...
Gender equality in the United States has, at times, been an activist movement in and of itself and, ...
An account of the ramifications of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the divisions it crea...
Scholars have largely treated the reintroduction of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) after its ratif...
This article analyzes women’s rights advocacy and its impact on the meanings of gender equality duri...
This essay is based on my remarks at the Center for Constitutional Law’s symposium on the Centennial...
It is difficult to imagine that only seventy-five years ago, a woman\u27s right to vote was not prot...
One hundred years after American women gained the right to vote, a new constitutional amendment may ...
Women in America needed the right to vote in order to further themselves in a male dominated world, ...
The history of the US woman suffrage movement did not end with the ratification of the Nineteenth Am...
Degree awarded: Ph.D. History. American UniversityThis dissertation uncovers the competing civic ide...
Download PDF version On this day, March 22, forty-nine years ago, a landmark decision in US women’...
The U. S. women\u27s movement began in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention for women\u27s rights. ...
One hundred years have passed since (white) women attained the right to vote. In the century since t...
Professor Jones examines efforts to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment which ended unsuccessf...
The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to add to an understanding of the ideas and arguments us...
Gender equality in the United States has, at times, been an activist movement in and of itself and, ...
An account of the ramifications of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the divisions it crea...
Scholars have largely treated the reintroduction of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) after its ratif...
This article analyzes women’s rights advocacy and its impact on the meanings of gender equality duri...
This essay is based on my remarks at the Center for Constitutional Law’s symposium on the Centennial...
It is difficult to imagine that only seventy-five years ago, a woman\u27s right to vote was not prot...
One hundred years after American women gained the right to vote, a new constitutional amendment may ...
Women in America needed the right to vote in order to further themselves in a male dominated world, ...
The history of the US woman suffrage movement did not end with the ratification of the Nineteenth Am...
Degree awarded: Ph.D. History. American UniversityThis dissertation uncovers the competing civic ide...
Download PDF version On this day, March 22, forty-nine years ago, a landmark decision in US women’...
The U. S. women\u27s movement began in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention for women\u27s rights. ...
One hundred years have passed since (white) women attained the right to vote. In the century since t...
Professor Jones examines efforts to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment which ended unsuccessf...
The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to add to an understanding of the ideas and arguments us...
Gender equality in the United States has, at times, been an activist movement in and of itself and, ...