Defining Documents in World History:

Women’s Rights (1429-2017)

“A spectacular survey of gender concerns, Salem’s Re document series on women’s rights highlights major Reviews challenges to male supremacy. Volume 1 opens on the Seneca Falls declaration and follows the arguments of the giants of feminism-Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull, and Susan B. Anthony-then progresses to Jane Adams, Margaret Sanger, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Volume 2 brings the collection through second-wave Booklist Starred feminism to the present with the commentary of figures like Betty Friedman, Gloria Steinem, Anita Hill, Ruth Bader Review Ginsburg, Hillary Clinton, and Angela Davis. Essential to the documents, a time line details progress from the era of Joan

of Arc in the early Renaissance to the present. Indexing

connects the reader, teacher, and researcher with gender

roles, Brown v. Board of Education, the vital voices of Barbara Jordan and Faye Wattleton, and the ERA. Tutorial sidebars address social themes-Jim Crow, caste, tenements, and race decadence. The balance of text, commentary, and illustrations guides the student of women’s rights to the heart of issues of equal pay, child custody, abortion, and antiwar, antiviolence initiatives. This valuable set organizes the basics of women’s historical advances. Highly recommended for public, high-school, and college libraries.” -Booklist

ISBN: 978-1-68217-583-5 Pub. Date: January 2018 List Price: $295

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