1. Hak-Hak Wanita Amerika

Indeks : Index ; "Belonging to the world": womwen's rights and American constitutional culture surveys the treatment of women in American Law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America to the present. Placing the legal history of women in the broader social, political, and economic context of American history, this book examines the evolution of women's constitutional status in the Unites States, the development of rights conciousness among women, and the attempts to expand zones of freedom for all women. This is first general account of women and American constitutional history to include the voices of women alongside the more familiar voices of lawmakers. An original work of historical synthesis, it delineates the shifting relationships between American Law practice and women, both within the family and elsewhere, as it looks beyond the campaign of women suffrage to broader areas of contest and controversy. Women's stories are used througout the book to illustrate the extraordinary range and persistene of female rebellion from the 1730s up through present era of "postfeminist" retrechment and blacklash. "Belonging to the Worls": women's rights and American constitutonal culture dispels the myth that the story of woman suffrage or married women's property acts, showing instead of American women have struggle along many fronts, not only to regain and expand their rights as sovereign citizens, but also to remake American culture.