From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues Second Edition

From Suffrage to the Senate is a comprehensive and valuable compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, and an examination of the wide range of women's movements.

This dynamically illustrated reference work explores American women's path to political power and social equality from the struggle for the right to vote and the abolition of slavery to the first African American woman in the U.S. Senate and beyond. This new edition includes over 150 new entries and a brand new section on trends and demographics of women in politics.

With an emphasis on modern pioneers from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds such as Madeleine Albright, Linda Chavez-Thompson, Shirley Chisholm, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Winona LaDuke, and Patsy Mink, From Suffrage to the Senate covers the individuals, organizations, movements, publications, milestones, legislative victories, and court cases that have changed the face of American politics. The in-depth coverage also traces the political heritage of the abolition, labor, suffrage, temperance, and reproductive rights movements.

The alphabetically arranged entries include biographies of every woman from across the political spectrum who has served in the U.S. House and Senate, along with women in the Judiciary and the U.S. Cabinet and, new to this edition, biographies of activists and political consultants. Bibliographical references follow each entry. For easy reference, a handy chronology is provided detailing 150 years of women's history.

This up-to-date reference will be a must-purchase for women's studies departments, high schools and public libraries and will be a handy resource for those researching the key players in women's politics, past and present.

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Foreword by Ann W. Richards (First Edition)

Foreword by Susan M. Collins (Second Edition)

Preface

Introduction

Volume 1: A-N
Abbott, Grace (1878-1939)
Abel, Hazel Pearl Hempel (1888-1966)
Abolitionist Movement, Women in the
Abortion
Abzug, Bella Savitzky (1920-1998)
Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818)
Adams, Annette Abbott (1877-1956)
Addams, Jane (1860-1935)
Adkins, Bertha Sheppard (1906-1983)
Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)
Affirmative Action
Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)
Albright, Madeleine Jana Korbel (b. 1937)
Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mosell (1898-1989)
Allen, Maryon Pittman (b. 1925)
Allred, Gloria Rachel (b. 1941)
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Alpha Suffrage Club
Alvarez, Aida (b. 1949)
American Association of University Women
American Civil Liberties Union
American Life League, Inc
American Woman Suffrage Association
American Women Presidents
Ames, Jessie Harriet Daniel (1883-1972)
Anderson, Amalia (b. 1974)
Anderson, Eugenie Moore (1909-1997)
Anderson, Marian (1902-1993)
Anderson, Mary (1872-1964)
Andrews, (Leslie) Elizabeth Bullock (1911-2002)
Angelou, Maya (b. 1928)
Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906)
Anti-lynching Movement
Armstrong, Anne Legendre (b. 1927)
Ashbrook, (Emily) Jean Spencer (b. 1934)
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
Atkinson, Ti-Grace (b. 1939)
Avery, Byllye Yvonne Reddick (b. 1937)
Baca, Pauline Celia (Polly) (b. 1941)
Bachur v. Democratic National Committee (1987)
Baker, Ella Josephine (1903-1986)
Baker, Irene Bailey (1901-1994)
Balch, Emily Greene (1867-1961)
Baldwin, Tammy (b. 1962)
Bañuelos, Romana Acosta (b. 1925)
Barnard, Catherine (Kate) Ann (1875-1930)
Barshefsky, Charlene (b. 1949)
Bass, Charlotta Spears (1880-1969)
Bates, Daisy Lee Gatson (1920-1999)
Beal v. Doe (1977)
Bean, Melissa (b. 1962)
Beauvoir, Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie
Bertrand de (1908-1986)
Bellamy, Carol (b. 1942)
Bellotti v. Baird (1976, 1979)
Belmont, Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt (1853-1933)
Benjamin, Medea (b. 1952)
Bentley, Helen Delich (b. 1923)
Berkley, Shelley (b. 1951)
Berry, Mary Frances (b. 1938)
Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod (1875-1955)
Biggert, Judith Borg (b. 1937)
Black Women's Health Imperative
Blackburn, Marsha Wedgeworth (b.1952)
Blackmun, Harry Andrew (1908-1999)
Blackwell, Alice Stone (1857-1950)
Blades, Joan (b. 1956)
Blair, Emily Newell (1877-1951)
Blanco, Kathleen Babineaux (b. 1942)
Blatch, Harriot Eaton Stanton (1856-1940)
Blitch, Iris Faircloth (1912-1993)
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks (1818-1894)
Bloor, Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt (Mother Bloor) (1862-1951)
Boggs, Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne (Lindy) (b. 1916)
Boland, Veronica Grace (1899-1982)
Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham (1885-1977)
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
Bonney, Mary Lucinda (1816-1900)
Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons (aka Zitkala-Sa, or Red Bird) (1876-1938)
Bono, Mary Whitaker (b. 1961)
Bordallo, Madeleine Mary Zeien (b. 1933)
Bosone, Reva Zilpha Beck (1895-1983)
Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Company (1969)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
Bowring, Eva Kelly (1892-1985)
Boxer, Barbara Levy (b. 1940)
Bradwell, Myra Colby (1831-1894)
Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
Brady, Sarah Jane Kemp (b. 1942)
Bravo, Ellen (b. 1944)
Bray v. Alexandria Clinic (1993)
Brazile, Donna Lease (b. 1959)
Brent, Margaret (ca. 1607-ca. 1671)
Brown, Corrine (b. 1946)
Brown, Elaine (b. 1943)
Brown, Judie (b. 1944)
Brown, Rita Mae (b. 1944)
Brown-Waite, Virginia (Ginny) (b.1943)
Browner, Carol (b. 1955)
Buchanan, Vera Daerr (1902-1955)
Burdick, Jocelyn Birch (b. 1922)
Burke, Perle Yvonne Watson Brathwaite (b. 1932)
Burlington Industries v. Ellerth (1998)
Burton, Sala Galante (1925-1987)
Bush, Barbara Pierce (b. 1925)
Bush, Laura (b. 1946)
Bushfield, Vera Cahalan (1889-1976)
Business and Professional Women/USA
Byrne, Jane Margaret Burke (b. 1934)
Byrne, Leslie Larkin (b. 1946)
Byron, Beverly Barton Butcher (b. 1932)
Byron, Katharine Edgar (1903-1976)
Cabinets, Women in Presidential
Cable Acts
Cahill, Mary Beth (b. 1954)
Calderón, Sila Maria (b. 1942)
Caldicott, Helen Broinowski (b. 1938)
Califano v. Goldfarb (1977)
Califano v. Westcott (1979)
California Federal Savings and Loan v Guerra (1987)
Cammermeyer, Margrethe (b. 1942)
Campbell, Bonnie Jean Pierce (b. 1948)
Cantwell, Maria (b. 1958)
Capito, Shelley Moore (b. 1953)
Capps, Lois (b. 1938)
Caraway, Hattie Ophelia Wyatt (1878-1950)
Carey v. Population Services International (1977)
Carlson, Margaret Mary Bresnahan (b. ca. 1945)
Carnahan, Jean (b. 1933)
Carpenter, Mary Elizabeth (Liz)
Sutherland (b. 1920)
Carson, Julia May Porter (b. 1938)
Carson, Rachel Louise (1907-1964)
Carter, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith (b. 1927)
Castle Rock v. Gonazales (2005)
Castro, Ida L. (b. 1953)
Catholics for a Free Choice
Catt, Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman (1859-1947)
Center for the American Woman and Politics
Chao, Elaine Lan (b. 1953)
Chavez, Linda (b. 1947)
Chavez-Thompson, Linda (b. 1944)
Chenoweth-Hage, Helen Palmer (b. 1938)
Child Day Care
Child Labor Amendment
Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)
Child Support Enforcement
Children's Bureau
Children's Defense Fund
Chisholm, Shirley Anita St. Hill (1924-2005)
Christensen, Donna Marie Christian (b. 1945)
Christian Coalition of America
Church, Marguerite Stitt (1892-1990)
Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII
Civil Rights Act of 1991
Civil Rights Movement, Women in the
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988
Clark Gray, Georgia Neese (1900-1995)
Clark, Septima Poinsette (1898-1987)
Clarke, Marian Williams (1880-1953)
Claybrook, Joan (b. 1937)
Clayton, Eva McPherson (b. 1934)
Cleaver, Kathleen Neal (b. 1945)
Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur (1974)
Clift, Eleanor (b. 1940)
Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham (b. 1947)
Clinton v. Jones (1997)
Coalition for Women's Appointments
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Code Pink
Coker v. Georgia (1977)
Colautti v. Franklin (1979)
Collins, Barbara-Rose (b. 1939)
Collins, Cardiss Hortense Robertson (b. 1931)
Collins, Martha Layne Hall (b. 1936)
Collins, Susan Margaret (b. 1952)
Colored Women's League
Comisin Femenil Mexicana - Nacional, Inc
Commissions on the Status of Women
Communist Party, USA
Comparable Worth
Concerned Women for America
Congress, Women in
Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues
Congressional Union
Congressional Workplace Compliance Act of 1995
Congresswomen's Caucus
Consciousness Raising
Conservatism
Conway, Kellyanne Fitzpatrick (b. 1967)
Corning Glass Works v. Brennan (1974)
Costanza, Margaret (Midge) (b. 1932)
Coulter, Ann (b. 1961)
Council of Presidents
Council of Women World Leaders
County of Washington, Oregon v Gunther (1981)
Coverture
Craig v. Boren (1976)
Crisp, Mary Dent (b. 1923)
Croly, Jane Cunningham (1829-1901)
Crowley, Candy (b. ca. 1948)
Cubin, Barbara Lynn (b. 1946)
Danner, Patsy Ann (b. 1934)
Daughters of Bilitis
Daughters of Liberty
Davis, Angela Yvonne (b. 1944)
Davis, Jo Ann (b. 1950)
Davis, Susan A. (b. 1944)
Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education (1999)
Day Care Council of America
Day, Dorothy (1897-1980)
Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions (1848)
Decter, Midge Rosenthal (b. 1927)
Deer, Ada Elizabeth (b. 1935)
DeGette, Diana Louise (b. 1957)
DeLauro, Rosa L. (b. 1943)
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Democratic Party, Women in the
Dennett, Mary Coffin Ware (1872-1947)
Dewson, Mary (Molly) Williams (1874-1962)
Diaz v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1971)
Displaced Homemakers
DiVall, Linda (b. ca. 1953)
Divorce Law Reform
Dix, Dorothea Lynde (1802-1887)
Doe v. Bolton (1973)
Dole, (Mary) Elizabeth Hanford (b. 1936)
Domestic Violence
Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977)
Douglas, Emily Taft (1899-1994)
Douglas, Helen Mary Gahagan (1900-1980)
Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895)
Drake, Thelma Day (b. 1949)
Duniway, Abigail Jane Scott (1834-1915)
Dunn, Jennifer Blackburn (b. 1941)
Duren v. Missouri (1979)
Durr, Virginia Heard Foster (1903-1999)
Dworkin, Andrea Rita (1946-2005)
Dwyer, Florence Price (1902-1976)
Eagle Forum
East, Catherine Shipe (1916-1996)
Eastman, Crystal (1881-1928)
Echaveste, Maria (b. 1954)
Ecofeminism
Economic Equity Act
Edelman, Marian Wright (b. 1939)
Education Amendments of 1972, Title IX
Education, Women and
Edwards, Elaine Lucille Schwartzenburg (b. 1929)
Edwards, India Moffett (1895-1990)
Eisenhuth Alming, Laura J. Kelly (1858-1937)
Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972)
Elders, Joycelyn (b. 1933)
Emerson, Jo Ann (b. 1950)
EMILY's List
Employment Discrimination
English, Karan (b. 1949)
Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974
Equal Division Rule
Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Equal Rights Amendment
Equal Rights Amendments, State
ERAmerica
Eshoo, Anna Georges (b. 1942)
Eslick, Willa McCord Blake (1878-1961)
Estrich, Susan (b. 1953)
Evans, Jodie (b. 1954)
Evers-Williams, Myrlie Louise Beasley (b. 1933)
Executive Order 10980
Executive Order 11126
Executive Order 11246
Executive Order 11375
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
Farenthold, Frances (Sissy) Talton (b. 1926)
Farrington, Mary Elizabeth Pruett (1898-1984)
Fauset, Crystal Dreda Bird (1894-1965)
Federal Women's Program
Federally Employed Women
Feinstein, Dianne Goldman (b. 1933)
Felton, Rebecca Ann Latimer (1835-1930) The Feminine Mystique
Feminist Majority Foundation
Feminist Movement
Feminists for Life of America
Feminization of Poverty
Fenwick, Millicent Hammond (1910-1992)
Ferguson, Miriam Amanda Wallace (1875-1961)
Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001)
Ferraro, Geraldine Anne (b. 1935)
Fiedler, Roberta (Bobbi) Frances Horowitz (b. 1937)
Fifteenth Amendment
Finney, Joan Marie McInroy (1925-2001)
Flint Auto Workers' Strike
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley (1890-1964)
Fonda, Jane Seymour (b. 1937)
Ford, Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Bloomer (b. 1918)
Fourteenth Amendment
Fowler, Tillie Kidd (1942-2005)
Foxx, Virginia Ann (b. 1943)
Frahm, Sheila Sloan (b. 1945)
Franklin, Barbara Hackman (b. 1940)
Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools (1992)
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994
Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein (1921-2006)
Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)
Fulani, Lenora Branch (b. ca. 1950)
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)
Fulmer, Willa Lybrand (1884-1968)
Furse, Elizabeth (b. 1936)
Futrell, Mary Alice Franklin Hatwood (b. 1940)
Future PAC, The
Gage, Matilda Joslyn (1826-1898)
Gasque Van Exem, Elizabeth Mills Hawley (1886-1989)
Geduldig v. Aiello (1974)
Gender Gap
General Electric v. Gilbert (1976)
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Gibbs, Florence Reville (1890-1964)
Gibbs, Lois (b. 1951)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)
Ginsburg, Ruth Joan Bader (b. 1933)
Glass Ceiling Commission
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft
Goesaert v. Cleary (1948)
Goldman, Emma (1869-1940)
Goodman, Amy (b. ca. 1957)
Goodwin, Doris Kearns (b. 1943)
Governors, Women
Granahan, Kathryn Elizabeth O'Hay (1894-1979)
Granger, Kay (b. 1943)
Granholm, Jennifer Mulhern (b. 1959)
Grasso, Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva Tambussi (1919-1981)
Gratz et al. v. Bollinger (2003)
Graves, Dixie Bibb (1882-1965)
Green, Edith Louise Starrett (1910-1987)
Green Party USA
Greene, Enid (b. 1958)
Greenway King, Isabella Selmes (1886-1953)
Gregoire, Christine O'Grady (b. 1947)
Griffiths, Martha Edna Wright (1912-2003)
Grimké, Angelina Emily (1805-1879) and Sarah Moore (1792-1873)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Grove City College v. Bell (1984)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Guinier, Carol Lani (b. 1950)
H. L. v. Matheson (1984)
Hall, Katie Beatrice Green (b. 1938)
Hamer, Fannie Lou Townsend (1917-1977)
Hansen, Julia Caroline Butler (1907-1988)
Harden, Cecil Murray (1894-1984)
Harman, Jane Frank (b. 1945)
Harriman, Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill
Hayward (1920-1997)
Harris, Katherine (b. 1957)
Harris, LaDonna (b. 1931)
Harris, Patricia Roberts (1924-1985)
Harris v. Forklift Systems (1993)
Harris v. McRae (1980)
Hart, Melissa Anne (b. 1962)
Hawkins, Paula Fickes (b. 1927)
Health Care, Women and
Heckler, Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy (b. 1931)
Height, Dorothy Irene (b. 1912)
Henderson, Hazel Mustard (b. 1933)
Herman, Alexis Margaret (b. 1947)
Hernandez, Aileen Clarke (b. 1926)
Herseth, Stephanie (b. 1970)
Hicks, (Anna) Louise Day (1923-2003)
Hill, Anita Faye (b. 1956)
Hill, Julia “Butterfly” (b. 1974)
Hills, Carla Helen Anderson (b. 1934)
Hishon v. King and Spalding (1984)
Hobby, Oveta Culp (1905-1995)
Hodgson v. Minnesota (1990)
Hoff, Joan (b. 1939)
Hollister, Nancy P. (b. 1949)
Holt, Marjorie Sewell (b. 1920)
Holtzman, Elizabeth (b. 1941)
Honeyman, Nan Wood (1881-1970)
Hooks, Bell (b. 1952)
Hooley, Darlene (b. 1939)
Horn, Joan Kelly (b. 1936)
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
Hoyt v. Florida (1961)
Huck, Winifred Sprague Mason (1882-1936)
Huerta, Dolores Clara Fernandez (b. 1930)
Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos (b. 1950)
Hufstedler, Shirley Ann Mount (b. 1925)
Hughes, Karen Parfitt (b. 1967)
Hull, Jane Dee Bowersock (b. 1935)
Humphrey Brown, Muriel Fay Buck (1912-1998)
Hurley, Ruby (1909-1980)
Hutchinson, Anne Marbury (1591-1643)
Hutchison, Kathryn (Kay) Ann Bailey (b. 1943)
Hyde, Henry John (b. 1924)
Ifill, Gwen (b. 1955)
Independent Women's Forum
Ireland, Patricia (b. 1945)
Ivins, Molly Tyler (b. 1944)
Jackson Lee, Sheila (b. 1950)
J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel T.B. (1994)
Jenckes, Virginia Ellis (1877-1975)
Johnson, Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor (b. 1912)
Johnson, Eddie Bernice (b. 1935)
Johnson, Lady Bird
Johnson, Nancy Lee (b. 1935)
Johnson v. Transportation Agency of
Santa Clara County (1987)
Jones, Elaine R. (b. 1944)
Jones, Stephanie Tubbs (b. 1949)
Jordan, Barbara Charline (1936-1996)
Jumper, Betty Mae (b. 1923)
Juries, Women on
Kahn, Florence Prag (1868-1948)
Kaptur, Marcia (Marcy) Carolyn (b. 1946)
Kassebaum Baker, Nancy Landon (b. 1932)
Kee, Maude Elizabeth Simpkins (1895-1975)
Kelley, Florence (1859-1932)
Kelly, Edna Patricia Kathleen Flannery (1906-1997)
Kelly, Sue W. (b. 1936)
Kennedy, Claudia J. (b. 1947)
Kennedy, Florynce Rae (1916-2000)
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennelly, Barbara Bailey (b. 1936)
Keys, Martha Elizabeth Ludwig (b. 1930)
Kilpatrick, Carolyn Cheeks (b. 1945)
King, Coretta Scott (1927-2006)
King, Mary (b. 1940)
Kirchberg v. Feenstra (1981)
Kirkpatrick, Jeane Duane Jordan (b. 1926)
Kissling, Frances (b. 1943)
Knutson, Coya Gjesdal (1912-1996)
Koontz, Elizabeth Duncan (1919-1989)
Kreps, Juanita Morris (b. 1921)
Kuhn, Margaret (Maggie) E. (1905-1995)
Kunin, Madeleine May (b. 1933)
Lachance, Janice Rachel (b. ca. 1952)
La Flesche, Susette (1854-1903)
LaDuke, Winona (b. 1959)
Lake, Celinda (b. 1953)
Lampkin, Daisy Elizabeth Adams (ca. 1884-1965)
Landes, Bertha Ethel Knight (1868-1943)
Landrieu, Mary (b. 1955)
Langley, Katherine Gudger (1888-1948)
Lathrop, Julia (1858-1932)
Lawrence Textile Mill Strike
League of Women Voters
Lease, Mary Elizabeth Clyens (1850-1933)
Lee, Barbara (b. 1946)
Lesbian Rights
Lewis, Ann Frank (b. 1937)
Liasson, Mara (b. 1955)
Liberalism
Liliuokalani (1838-1917)
Lincoln, Blanche Lambert (b. 1960)
Lingle, Linda Cutter (b. ca. 1953)
Liswood, Laura (b. 1950)
Lloyd Bouquard, Rachel Marilyn Laird (b. 1929)
Lockwood, Belva Ann Bennett McNall (1830-1917)
Lofgren, Zoe (b. 1947)
Long, Catherine Small (b. 1924)
Long, Rose McConnell (1892-1970)
Long Thompson, Jill Lynnette (b. 1952)
Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power v. Manhart (1978)
Louchheim, Kathleen (Katie) Scofield (1903-1991)
Lowey, Nita Melnikoff (b. 1937)
Luce, Clare Boothe (1903-1987)
Lusk, Georgia Lee Witt (1893-1971)
Lyon, Phyllis (b. 1924)
MacKinnon, Catharine Alice (b. 1946)
Madar, Olga Marie (1916-1996)
Maher v. Roe (1977)
Majette, Denise L. (b.1955)
Malcolm, Ellen Reighley (b. 1947)
Maloney, Carolyn Bosher (b. 1948)
MANA, a National Latina Organization
Mankiller, Wilma P. (b. 1945)
Mankin, Helen Douglas (1894-1956)
Margolies-Mezvinsky, Marjorie (b. 1942)
Married Women's Property Acts
Martin, Del Taliaferro (b. 1921)
Martin, Judith Lynn Morley (b. 1939)
Martin, Marion E. (1900-1987)
Martz, Judy (b. 1943)
Matalin, Mary Joe (b. 1953)
Matsui, Doris Okada (b. 1944)
May Bedell, Catherine Dean Barnes (1914-2004)
McCabe, Jewell Jackson (b. 1945)
McCarthy, Carolyn (b. 1944)
McCarthy, Karen (b. 1947)
McCarty v. McCarty (1980)
McCollum, Betty (b. 1954)
McCormack, Ellen (b. 1926)
McCormick Simms, Ruth Hanna (1880-1944)
McKinney, Cynthia Ann (b. 1955)
McLaughlin, Ann Dore Lauenstein (b. 1941)
McMillan, Clara Gooding (1894-1976)
McMorris, Cathy (b. 1969)
Meek, Carrie Pittman (b. 1926)
Meissner, Doris Marie (b. 1941)
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986)
Meyers, Jan (b. 1928)
Meyner, Helen Day Stevenson (1929-1997)
RU-486 (Mifepristone)
Mikulski, Barbara Ann (b. 1936)
Military, Women in the
Millender-McDonald, Juanita (b. 1938)
Miller, Candice S. (b. 1954)
Miller, Laura (b. 1958)
Millett, Katherine (Kate) Murray (b. 1934)
Mink, Patsy Matsu Takemoto (1927-2002)
Minner, Ruth Ann Coverdale (b. 1935)
Minor v. Happersett (1875)
Mississippi University for Women v Hogan (1982)
Mofford, Rose Perica (b. 1922)
Molinari, Susan (b. 1958)
Moore, Gwendolynne S. (b. 1951)
Moore, Minyon (b. 1958)
Morella, Constance Albanese (b. 1931)
Moseley Braun, Carol (b. 1947)
Moskowitz, Belle Lindner Israels (1877-1933)
Motley, Constance Baker (1921-2005)
Mott, Lucretia Coffin (1793-1880)
Ms. Foundation for Women
Ms. Magazine
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Murkowski, Lisa (b. 1957)
Murray, Patty Johns (b. 1950)
Murray, Pauli (1910-1985)
Musgrave, Marilyn N. (b. 1949)
Myers, Margaret Jane (Dee Dee) (b. 1961)
Myrick, Sue (b. 1941)
Napolitano, Grace Flores (b. 1936)
Napolitano, Janet Ann (b. 1957)
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Nashville Gas Co. v. Satty (1977)
National Advisory Committee for Women
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Women in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc
National Association of Commissions for Women
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year, 1975
National Committee on Pay Equity
National Committee to Defeat the UnEqual Rights Amendment
National Congress of Black Women
National Consumers League
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of Negro Women
National Federation of Afro-American Women
National Federation of Republican Women
National Gender Balance Project USA
National League of Republican Colored Women
National Organization for Women
National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women
National Right to Life Committee
National Welfare Rights Organization
National Woman Suffrage Association
National Woman's Loyal League
National Woman's Party
National Women's Conference
National Women's Conference Committee
National Women's Law Center
National Women's Political Caucus
Natividad, Irene (b. 1948)
Neuberger, Maurine Brown (1907-2000)
New York Radical Women
News Media, Women Politicians and 9to5, National Association of Working Women
Nineteenth Amendment
Nixon, Pat Ryan (1912-1993)
Nolan, Mae Ella Hunt (1886-1973)
Norrell, Catherine Dorris (1901-1981)
Northup, Anne Meagher (b. 1948)
Norton, Eleanor Holmes (b. 1937)
Norton, Gale (b. 1954)
Norton, Mary Teresa Hopkins (1875-1959)
Novello, Antonia Coello (b. 1944)
NOW v. Scheidler (1994) (2003) (2006)
Nussbaum, Karen (b. 1950)

Volume 2: O-Z
Oakar, Mary Rose (b. 1940)
O'Beirne, Kate (b. ca. 1949)
O'Connor, Sandra Day (b. 1930)
O'Day, Caroline Love Goodwin (1875-1943)
Office of Women's Initiatives and Outreach
O'Hare, Kathleen Richards (1876-1948)
Ohio v. Akron Center (1990)
O'Laughlin, Kathryn Ellen McCarthy (1894-1952)
Oldfield, Pearl Peden (1876-1962)
O'Leary, Hazel Rollins (b. 1937)
Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1929-1994)
Operation Rescue
Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesina (Farmworker Women's
Organization in California)
Orr, Kay Avonne Stark (b. 1939)
Orr v. Orr (1979)
Ortega, Katherine Davalos (b. 1934)
Owen Rohde, Ruth Bryan (1885-1954)
Park, Maud Wood (1871-1955)
Parks, Rosa Louise McCauley (1913-2005)
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
Patterson, Elizabeth Johnston (b. 1939)
Paul, Alice (1885-1977)
Pay Equity
Peace Movement
Pelosi, Nancy B. (b. 1940)
Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders (2004)
Perkins, Frances (Fanny) Corlie (1882-1965)
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
Personnel Administrator of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v Feeney (1979)
Peterson, Esther (1906-1997)
Pettis Roberson, Shirley Neil McCumber (b. 1924)
Pfost, Gracie Bowers (1906-1965)
Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation (1971)
Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (1973)
Planned Parenthood Association of Kansas City, Mo. v. Ashcroft (1983)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth (1976)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern
Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)
Poelker v. Doe (1977)
Pornography
Poverty
Pratt, Eliza Jane (1902-1981)
Pratt, Ruth Sears Baker (1877-1965)
Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
President and Vice President, Women Candidates for
President's Commission on the Status of Women
President's Interagency Council on Women
President's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989)
Priest, Ivy Maude Baker (1905-1975)
Progressive Party, Women in the
Pro-Life Action League
Protective Legislation
Pryce, Deborah (b. 1951)
Public Offices, Women Elected to
Public Speaking
Pyle, Gladys (1890-1989)
Quaker Women
Quinton, Amelia Stone (1833-1926)
Racial Discrimination
Radicalesbians
Rambaut, Mary Lucinda Bonney
Rankin, Jeannette Pickering (1880-1973)
Rape
Ray, Dixy Lee (1914-1994)
Reagan, Nancy Robbins (b. 1921)
Redstockings
Reece, Louise Goff (1898-1970)
Reed v. Reed (1971)
Reid, Charlotte Thompson (b. 1913)
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Rell, M. Jodi (b. 1946)
Reno, Janet (b. 1938)
Reproductive Rights
Republican Party, Women in the
Republicans for Choice
Rice, Condoleezza (b. 1954)
Richards, Ann Willis (1933-2006)
Riley, Corrine Boyd (1893-1979)
Rivers, Lynn Nancy (b. 1956)
Rivlin, Alice Mitchell (b. 1931)
Roberts, Barbara Hughey (b. 1936)
Roberts, Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs (Cokie) (b. 1943)
Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984)
Robertson, Alice Mary (1854-1931)
Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith (1941-1967)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Rogers, Edith Frances Nourse (1881-1960)
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (b. 1952)
Ross, Nellie Tayloe (1876-1977)
Rostker v. Goldberg (1981)
Roukema, Margaret Scafati (b. 1929)
Roy, Vesta M. (1925-2002)
Roybal-Allard, Lucille (b. 1941)
RU-486
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre (1842-1924)
Rust v. Sullivan (1991)
Saiki, Patricia Fukuda (b. 1930)
St. George, Katharine Delano Price Collier (1894-1983)
Sa´nchez, Linda T. (b. 1969)
Sanchez, Loretta (b. 1960)
Sanger, Margaret Louise Higgins (1879-1966)
Sayles Belton, Sharon (b. 1951)
Schakowsky, Janice D. (b. 1944)
Schenk, Lynn (b. 1945)
Schlafly, Phyllis Stewart (b. 1924)
Schmidt, Jean (b.1951)
Schneider, Claudine Cmarada (b. 1947)
Schroeder, Patricia Nell Scott (b. 1940)
Schwartz, Allyson Y. (b. 1948)
Seastrand, Andrea Ciszek (b. 1941)
Sebelius, Kathleen Gilligan (b. 1948)
Seneca Falls Convention
Separate Spheres
Sex Discrimination
Sexual Harassment
Shabazz, Hajj Bahiyah (Betty) (1936-1997)
Shaheen, Jeanne (b. 1947)
Shalala, Donna Edna (b. 1941)
Shaw, Anna Howard (1847-1919)
Shepherd, Karen (b. 1940)
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act of 1921
Shirtwaist Workers Strike
Simmons, Althea T. L. (1924-1990)
Simpson, Edna Oakes (1891-1984)
Slaughter, Louise McIntosh (b. 1929)
Smeal, Eleanor Cutri (b. 1939)
Smith, Howard Worth (1883-1976)
Smith, Linda A. (b. 1950)
Smith, Margaret Madeline Chase (1897-1995)
Smith, Mary Louise (1914-1997)
Smith, Virginia Dodd (b. 1911)
Snowe, Olympia Jean Bouchles (b. 1947)
Social Security
Socialism
Solis, Hilda (b. 1957)
Spellings, Margaret Dudar La Montagne (b. ca. 1957)
Spellman, Gladys Blossom Noon (1918-1988)
Spider Web
Stabenow, Deborah Ann (b. 1950)
Stalking
Stanley, Winifred Claire (1909-1996)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902)
Stanton v. Stanton (1975)
State Legislatures, Women in
Steinem, Gloria Marie (b. 1934)
Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. v. Carhart (2000)
Stewart, Maria W. (1803-1879)
Stone, Lucy (1818-1893)
Stop ERA
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811-1896)
Strauder v. West Virginia (1879)
Strauss, Annette Greenfield (1924-1998)
Suffrage
Sullivan, Leonor Kretzer (1902-1988)
Sumner, Jessie (1898-1994)
Susan B. Anthony List
Swift, Jane (b. 1965)
Talbert, Mary Morris Burnett (1866-1923)
Tauscher, Ellen (b. 1951)
Taylor v. Louisiana (1975)
Temperance Movement, Women in the
Terrell, Mary Eliza Church (1863-1954)
The Future PAC: Women Building for the Future
Thomas, Helen Amelia (b. 1920)
Thomas, Lera Millard (1900-1993)
Thompson, Ruth (1887-1970)
Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1986)
Thurman, Karen L. (b. 1951)
Title IX
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Truth, Sojourner (ca. 1797-1883)
Tubman, Harriet (ca. 1820-1913)
Tyson, Laura D'Andrea (b. 1947)
UAW v. Johnson Controls (1991)
United States v. Morrison (2000)
United States v. Virginia (1996)
University of California Regents v. Bakke (1978)
Unsoeld, Jolene Bishoprick (b. 1931)
Upton, Harriet Taylor (1853-1945)
Vaid, Urvashi (b. 1958)
Vela´zquez, Nydia Margarita (b. 1953)
Veneman, Ann (b. 1949)
Veterans Preference
Vilmain, Teresa (b. ca. 1959)
Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 2000, and 2005
Violence Against Women Office
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Vucanovich, Barbara Farrell (b. 1921)
Wald, Lillian D. (1867-1940)
Waldholtz, Enid Greene
Walker, Olene (b. 1930)
Wallace, Lurleen Burns (1926-1968)
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie (b. 1966)
Waters, Maxine Moore Carr (b. 1938)
Watson, Barbara Mae (1918-1983)
Watson, Diane Edith (b. 1933)
Wattleton, Alyce Faye (b. 1943)
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
Weddington, Sarah Ragle (b. 1945)
Weeks v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company (1969)
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld (1975)
Weis, Jessica McCullough (1901-1963)
Welfare
Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell (1862-1931)
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937)
Westwood, Frances Jean Miles (1923-1997)
Wexler, Anne Levy (b. 1930)
Whitman, Christine Todd (b. 1946)
Whitmire, Kathyrn Jean (b. 1946)
Widnall, Sheila Evans (b. 1938)
Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline (1839-1898)
Willebrandt, Mabel Walker (1889-1963)
Williams v. Zbaraz (1980)
Wilson, Diane (b. ca. 1949)
Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt (1872-1961)
Wilson, Heather (b. 1960)
Wingo, Effiegene Locke (1883-1962)
WISH List
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Woman's National Loyal League
Woman's Peace Party
Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act of 1992
Women of Color Policy Network
Women Strike for Peace
Women Under Forty Political Action Committee
Women Work! The National Network for
Women's Employment
Women's Action for New Directions
Women's Bureau
Women's Campaign Fund
Women's Educational Equity Act of 1974
Women's Equity Action League
Women's Health Equity Act
Women's Health, Office of Research on
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Women's Joint Congressional Committee
Women's Liberation Movement
Women's Policy, Inc
Women's Political Council
Women's Political Union
Women's Trade Union League
WomenHeart: The National Coalition for
Women with Heart Disease
Woodhouse, Chase Going (1890-1984)
Woodhull, Victoria Claflin (1838-1927)
Woodruff, Judy Carline (b. 1946)
Woolsey, Lynn (b. 1937)
Wright, Frances (Fanny) (1795-1852)
Year of the Woman
Yellen, Janet (b. 1946)
YWCA of the USA

Appendix 1: Documents
Setting Political Agendas
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 1848
Convention on the Political Rights of Women, 1953
The National Organization for Women's Bill of Rights for Women, 1967
The National Women's Conference Plan of Action, 1977
Declaration of Sentiments of the National Organization for Women, 1998
Woman Suffrage
Speech after Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election, Susan B Anthony, 1873
An Argument against Woman Suffrage, Kate Gannett Wells, 1884
Why I Am Opposed to Woman Suffrage, Jeannette Gilder, 1894
The Winning Plan, Carrie Chapman Catt, 1915
Equal Rights Amendment
Should Congress Approve the Proposed
Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution? Alice Paul, 1943
Equal Rights for Women, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, 1969
Let's Have ERA as a Signal, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1977
Eyewitness: Beating the Bra Burners, Phyllis Schlafly, 1997
Women, Campaigns, and Political Parties
Announce Myself as a Candidate for the Presidency, Victoria Woodhull, 1870
Women in Politics, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, 1973
A New Beginning: A New Dedication, Rep. Barbara Jordan, 1976
What the GOP Has Done for Women, Rep. Jennifer Dunn, 1996
Exploratory Committee Announcement Speech, Elizabeth Dole, 1999
We Don't Need to Be Perfect. We Just Need to Make the Run, Laura Liswood, 2003
Run, Sisters, Run! Donna Brazile, 2005
Women of Sovereign Nations
Appeal to President Grover Cleveland, Queen Liliuokalani, 1893
The School Days of an Indian Girl, Zitkala-S?a, 1900
The Indigenous Women's Network: Our
Future, Our Responsibility, Winona LaDuke, 1995
Statement before the Joint Hearing of the House Resources Committee, Ada Deer, 1997
Confronting Racism and Discrimination
A Black Woman Describes Prejudice in the Nation's Capital, Mary Church, 1900
Seeking a Link with the Past, Rep. Patsy T. Mink, 1971
Getting Beyond Racism, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, 1993
Speech at the March on Washington, Urvashi Vaid, 1993
The Changing Face of Rural Communities, Amalia Anderson, Main Street Project
Women's Reproductive Lives
Birth Control—A Parents' Problem or Woman's? Margaret Sanger, 1920
Reproductive Freedom: Fundamental to All Human Rights, Faye Wattleton, 1990
Abortion and Women's Rights, Frederica Mathewes-Green
Statement to Feminists for Life of America, Rep. Helen Chenoweth, 1997
So Much We Can Do: A Nation of Leaders, Gloria Feldt, 1998
Perspectives on Family and Community
The Problem That Has No Name, Betty Friedan, 1963
Workshop Resolutions—First National Chicana Conference, 1971
Educating the Black Child: Our Past and Our Future, Marian Wright Edelman, 1987
It's the Family, Stupid! Kate Kendall, 1999
Women and Work
Child Labor and Woman Suffrage, Florence Kelley, 1905
Dolores Huerta Talks, Dolores Huerta, 1972
Sexual Harassment: The Nature of the Beast, Anita Hill, 1992
Statement on Equal Pay Day, Linda Chavez-Thompson, 1998
Sustainability
Green School Initiatives, Lois Marie Gibbs, 2002
Are You Too Well Behaved? Diane Wilson
CODEPink: Women for Peace and Social Justice
Socially Responsible Practices Have
Businesses Seeing Green, Hazel Henderson
Presidential Appointees
Special Briefing on Travel to the Middle East and Europe, Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Remarks to the First National Summit on the Advancement of Girls in Math and Science, 2006
The Justice System and Women
The Woman Juror, Burnita Shelton Matthews
The Supreme Court: A Place for Women
Political Commentators
Will Not Support Hillary Clinton for President, Molly Ivins, 2006

Appendix 2: Facts and Statistics

Chronology

Bibliography

Index

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