The Encyclopedia Of Women's History In America - Softcover

Cullen-dupont, Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306808684 ISBN 13: 9780306808685

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1998

Synopsis

More than 500 entries examine virtually every aspect of the experiences, struggles, and achievements of women in the United States: important and pioneering figures, key events, and controversies, movements and court cases. Topics include Abigail Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Baby M, Backlash , Amy Beach, bra-burning, Rachel Carson, Hillary Clinton, contraception, Emily Dickinson, Amelia Earhart, Equal Rights Amendment, Eva Hesse, Anita Hill, military service, Toni Morrison, Nineteenth Amendment, Operation Rescue, Pocahontas, rape, Roe v. Wade , Salem Witchcraft Trails, Margaret Sanger, sexual harassment, and Year of the Woman.This encyclopedia also includes an appendix of pertinent documents, an extensive bibliography, and nearly four dozen photos new to this first-time paperback edition. From colonial poet Anne Bradstreet to a discussion of the glass ceiling,” this encyclopedia is a fascinating, reliable, and up-to-date resource.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathryn Cullen-DuPont is the author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Liberty, which the New York Public Library named a Best Book for the Teen Age in 1994. She is also the co-author of Women's Suffrage in America, described by The Washington Spectator as "one of the best recent books on the subject of women and the vote," and of Women's Rights on Trial, which Choice praised as "a highly readable and fascinating portrait of the many ways the law has affected women's lives."

Ms. Cullen-DuPont was a member of the advisory board for the Primary Source Media CD-ROM, American Journey: Women in America. She is also the permanent consultant on women's issues for Grolier's New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia and a contributing author to the Academic American Encyclopedia. A frequent guest lecturer at educational institutions, she is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and a member of that organization's WriteSpeakers Referral Service. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is currently at work on a novel.

From Library Journal:

In this treatment of U.S. women's history, Cullen-Dupont (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Facts on File, 1992, a YA biography) presents over 500 entries for significant events, legislative acts, court cases, organizations, individuals, and publications. Inclusion, though unpredictable, tends to favor specific named groups rather than general concepts (e.g., Operation Rescue and Roe v. Wade; nothing under abortion), and reflects the diversity of women's backgrounds and experience in the United States. Less comprehensive than Angela Zophy's Handbook of American Women's History (LJ 3/1/90), particularly concerning women's occupations and other topics in U.S. social history, this work lacks the advantage of Zophy's specialist contributors. Its emphasis is less biographical than Doris Weatherford's American Women's History (Prentice, 1994); unlike the Weatherford title, it has no illustrations but does include suggested readings after each entry, an extensive bibliography, an appendix of 34 documents, and an index (not seen). Also on the plus side are Cullen-Dupont's engaging prose style, enlivened by frequent quotes from primary sources, and good coverage of recent topics, including entries for Anita Hill, Camille Paglia, "glass ceiling," the Violence Against Women Act (1994), and Harris v. Forklift Systems. An attractive and useful purchase for high school and public libraries, and a good, reasonably priced second choice, after Zophy's work, for academic libraries.?Carolynne Myall, Eastern Washington Univ. Libs., Cheney
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About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0306808684
• ISBN 13: 9780306808685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368