The Rights of Women, Third Edition: The Basic ACLU Guide to Women's Rights

by Susan Deller Ross

Book Overview

Throughout much of American history, discrimination against women has been rooted in the legal system. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott called the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, one of their major concerns was a legal system that profoundly discriminated against women. It deprived all women of the right to vote and also prohibited women from engaging in many occupations and professions, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316331
• ISBN13: 9780809316335
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.1" x 6.9"