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The women's rights movement in the United States grew out of the temperance and antislavery movements of the first half of the nineteenth century. Inhibitally banned from joining the male-only organizations that supported these movements, female leaders such as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only pushed for inclusion but also set out to promote the rights of women. During the next few decades, Stanton and fellow women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony became the leaders of a movement that supported a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. Although they would not live to see the enactment of this amendment, their hard work laid the groundwork for the next generation of reformers. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and Alice Paul, who helped found the National Woman's Party, carried on their legacy. In August 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, and women finally had the right to vote. Having earned this right, American women now could work for equal rights through political advocacy.
About the Author:
Author Shane Mountjoy is associate professor of history and dean of students at York College in York, Nebraska
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Dikyi Samkhar
reviewed The Women's Rights Movement: Moving Toward Equality on February 12, 2018
The Women's Rights Movement: Moving Toward Equality
The book itself hasn't dated as much as I expected. While the discussion is still sketchy and simplistic it's true these same topics are still being fearmongered: child abduction, the medicalisation of life, race, youth.
However what I really wanted to read was the new chapter on the post 9/11 world. Sadly this is as shallow as the original book. There's a great quote from Dan Rather on page 234, regarding how, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, to question government became tantamount to treason:
"One finds oneself saying, 'I know the right questions [to ask the Bush administration], but you know what? This is not exactly the right time to ask it.'"
Glassner doesn't discuss this any further, and yet the defining characteristic of the 2000s was how consumers being parted from their dollars by media-highlighted fears segued into citizens being parted from their rights by government-highlighted fears.
Our Prime Minister just pulled this exact crap on Kiwis this week. He's trying to get a bill passed to allow greater surveillance over NZ citizens, and now claims that New Zealanders are being trained by al-Quaeda in Yemen. To which Kiwis universally say, "Hahahahahahahaha," while we still sit and watch this legislation get passed.
So, I think the book (as always) raises interesting ideas,but doesn't take them anywhere. An introduction to the topic, rather than a discussion on it.
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