CHS Pathfinder: Women's Rights

Terms to use in searching the CHS Catalog

feminism, feminist movement, suffragettes, women - suffrage, women's rights, women's liberation movement

Call numbers: Go "browse" the shelves in these areas

305.4

Some books which may be borrowed

The fight for women's right to vote in American history 324.6 NAS
It Changed my Life: Writings on the Women's Movement by Betty Friedan  301.41 FRI
Male / Female Roles (Opposing Viewpoints) 305.3 MAL
The Sexual Revolution  306.7 S
The women of Afghanistan under the Taliban 305.4 SKA

Some Reference books - to be used in the library

The ABC-CLIO Companion to Women's Progress in America R 305.4 FRO
From Suffrage to the Senate  R 320 SCH
Profiles in American History: Volume 6 R 920 MOS
Women's suffrage in America : an eyewitness history R 324.6 FRO

Magazine databases and other eResources

Gale Virtual Reference Library 
MAS Ultra - School Edition 
Multicultural Reference Center 
SIRS
TOPICsearch 
Newsbank
Newspaper Source

Web sites

CEDAW   Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Women An extensive collection of links from lii.org

AV - Videos, DVDs

Shoulder to Shoulder: The Pankhurst Family VID 324.623 SHO
The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony VID 305.42 STO

Biography

The Education of  a Woman: The Life of  Gloria Steinem B STE
Margaret Sanger : her life in her words 363.9 REE
Mary Wollstonecraft : mother of women's rights B WOL
Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: an illustrated history 920 WAR
Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman? B TRU
You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz B STA

T Dakubu 2006