Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
From Suffrage to the Senate: America’s Political WomenFrom Grace Abbott to Janet Yellen, the Abolitionist Movement to the YWCA, find out about American women leaders and issues.
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Women Who Ruled
Who wouldn’t want to be queen? Many ruled until sons or brothers were old enough to ascend the throne, but some – Dona Urraca of Leon and Castile, Kalyanavati of Sri Lanka – governed in their own right, in ancient times as well as in modern.
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[Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
http://ezproxy.drew.edu/login?url= http://www.credoreference.com/vol/584]The first woman was elected to the House of Representatives before American women received the vote. Jeanette Rankin of Colorado arrived in Congress in 1917, in time to vote against entering World War I: “As a woman, I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.” That vote cost her the next election, but she came back! |
Black Women in America
It wasn’t until almost fifty years after the first white Congresswoman that Shirley Chisholm entered the House, in 1964. As she said, “I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish.”
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Women’s Studies InternationalWhere are women likely to be the most active? What issues really get women going? And is the mere category of “women” useful politically? The premier index in Women’s Studies helps identify sources that address these questions.
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GenderWatch
Publications like Off Our Backs and Herizon can have some radical insights into the politics of the day!
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