Women's Rights
December 03, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
92 Sta HS
Clarke, Mary Stetson. Bloomers and ballots; : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women's rights. A biography of one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement and first public proponent of suffrage for women.
92 Whi HS
Vining, Elizabeth Gray. Mr. Whittier. A biography of the nineteenth-century Quaker poet stressing his deep involvement in abolition, women's suffrage, and other human rights, with emphasis on the articles and poems he wrote in defense of his beliefs.
301.412 DeP HS
De Pauw, Linda Grant. Founding mothers : women in America in the revolutionary era. Describes the daily lives, social roles, and contributions of women living during the revolutionary period.
301.412 Gur HS
Gurko, Miriam. The ladies of Seneca Falls; : the birth of the woman's rights movement. An account of the feminist movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries focusing on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
301.412 Hah HS
Hahn, Emily. Once upon a pedestal.
301.412 Lan HS
Landau, Elaine. Woman, woman! : Feminism in America. Discusses the role of women in American history, stereotypes and discrimination that have kept them from realizing their potential, and the move for equality in the 1960s and '70s.
301.412 Ros HS
Rossi, Alice S. The feminist papers: from Adams to de Beauvoir. A selection of documents in feminist history over the past two centuries.
324 Fab HS
Faber, Doris. Petticoat politics; : how American women won the right to vote.
324.6 Cor HS
Corbin, Carole Lynn. The right to vote. Documents the history of the right to vote in America, from colonial times to the present, including the struggles of blacks, women, and those under twenty-one to win that right.
324.6 Fri
Fritz, Jean. You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton? A biography of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton from her childhood, to her fight for the end of slavery, to her death 18 years before women were granted the right to vote.
324.73 Sev HS
Severn, Bill. Free but not equal; : how women won the right to vote,. A history of the suffrage movement highlighting the works of such remarkable leaders as Anne Hutchinson, Susan B. Anthony, and Carrie Catt, whose persistent struggles for women's voting rights resulted in the nineteenth amendment.
977.7 Nou HS
Noun, Louise R. Strong-minded women; : the emergence of the woman-suffrage movement in Iowa.
Fic Bol HS
Bolton, Carole. Never jam today. In 1917 a seventeen-year-old girl becomes involved in the women's suffrage movement against the will of her parents.
Fic Coo HS
Cooney, Caroline B. Prisoner of time. Attempting to break free from the oppression of women in the nineteenth century, sixteen-year-old Devonny steps through time hoping to find the power to change her fate.
Fic Hun HS
Hunt, Irene. Claws of a young century : a novel. Seventeen-year-old Ellen's optimistic dream of a bright new century full of hope on New Year's Eve 1899 seems a far cry from the reality of the next 20 years as she and all those close to her fight private and social battles that leave none of their lives unchanged.
Fic Las
Lasky, Kathryn. A time for courage : the suffragette diary of Kathleen Bowen. A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
