Women’s Rights - Further Reading

Go to articleFurther Reading from Encarta

Further Reading offers additional information about your topics.

Women’s Rights

For younger readers | Women's rights

•

Coffee break: Recharge your brain

For younger readers

Adams, Colleen. Women's Suffrage: A Primary Source History of the Women's Rights Movement in America. Rosen, 2003. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Bohannon, Lisa Frederiksen. Women's Rights and Nothing Less: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Morgan Reynolds, 2000. For middle school to adult readers.

Kendell, Martha E. Failure is Impossible: The History of American Women's Rights. Lerner, 2001. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Miller, Calvin Craig. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Women. Morgan Reynolds, 1999. A lively biography for middle school and high school readers.

Ross, Mandy. The Changing Role of Women. Heinemann, 2002. For readers in grades 6 to 9.

Stearman, Kaye. Women's Rights: Changing Attitudes, 1900-2000. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000. For readers in grades 6 through 9.

Worth, Richard. Women in Combat: The Battle for Equality. Enslow, 1999. Both sides of the issue. For middle school and high school readers.

Women's rights

Afkhami, Mahnaz, ed. Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World. Syracuse University Press, 1995. Chronicles the links between faith, religion, and human rights.

Grimshaw, Patricia, and others. Women's Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives. Palgrave, 2001. Twenty thoughtful essays on women's struggles for human rights and social justice.

Kendall, Martha E. Failure Is Impossible!: The History of American Women's Rights. 3rd ed. Lerner, 2001. From Susan B. Anthony to Betty Friedan. A primer for middle school readers.

Petchesky, Rosalind P., and Karen Judd, eds. Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives Across Countries and Cultures. Zed, 1998. A far-reaching analysis that is a standard of field research.

Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Viking, 2000. A history of the women's liberation movement in the last half of the 20th century.

Ross, Susan Deller; Isabelle Katz Pinzler; Deborah A. Ellis; and Kary Moss. The Rights of Women: The Basic ACLU Guide to Women's Rights. Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. Legal aspects of women's issues such as employment, education, parenting, and family law discussed in a question-and-answer format.

Ward, Geoffrey C., and others. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Knopf, 2001. A companion volume to Ken Burns' acclaimed television documentary.

Search for more books about Women’s Rights