American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and...
From equal rights to full rights The Equal Rights Amendment, introduced in 1923, has resurfaced in 2021 after a long sleep.聽Whether it becomes part of the US Constitution is anyone鈥檚 guess, as is the practical effect of such a change given the conservative tilt of the Supreme Court.Read More
American feminists and the global fight for democratic equality Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Read More
