The Equal Rights Amendment & the Limits of Liberal Legal ReformWhy ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution. By Mary Francis Berry A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett Rights of Passage: The Past and Future of the ERA. By Joan Hoff-Wilson Gender Justice. By David L. Kirp , Mark G. Yudof , and Marlene Strong Franks Why We Lost the ERA. By Jane J. Mansbridge Constitutional Inequality: The Political Fortunes of the Equal Rights Amendment. By Gilbert Y. Steiner

Polity ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura R. Woliver
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Equal Rights Amendment ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Liberation

Mobilizing Women’s Rights as Human Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 170-197
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Marino
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Equal Rights Amendment ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines how, during the Second World War, Latin American feminists continued to push broad meanings of international women’s rights and human rights in spite of little support from their U.S. counterparts. The women from the U.S. Women’s and Children’s Bureaus who replaced Doris Stevens in the Inter-American Commission of Women avoided promoting women’s “equal rights” because of the fraught Equal Rights Amendment debate in the U.S. Latin American feminists effectively pushed these U.S. counterparts on a number of issues, including toward advocacy for maternity legislation, which Latin American feminists asserted as a human right. The Atlantic Charter and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, which underscored social and economic rights, inspired Latin American feminists’ broad calls for human rights. Their framings included women’s rights, and greater economic security and multilateral relations in the Americas. These demands came together at the 1945 Chapultepec conference where a number of Latin American feminists in the Inter-American Commission of Women also paved the way for Latin American countries to appoint women to their delegations going to the conference that would create the United Nations.

Sense and Nonsense of Revolt (1924–1927)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Y. Park
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
New Women ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Sources Of Influence

Chapter 3 discusses the philosophical foundation of the New Women’s theory of chastity by exploring Swedish feminist Ellen Key (1849–1926). Key was one of the major sources of influence for the New Women in the United States, Japan, and Korea, during the 1880s, 1910s and 1920s. Relying on Key’s writings, the New Women formulated their visions of women’s liberation and women’s rights in terms of marriage, sexuality, and love, as well as maternity and child-rearing. The chapter also discusses the transition in Iryŏp’s thought from a feminist activist to an existential thinker to better understand her existential reality by exercising what Iryŏp calls new individualism.

The Nineteenth Amendment Today

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Paula A. Monopoli
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Equal Rights Amendment ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Women's Equality

Chapter 8 concludes that the Nineteenth Amendment can be revitalized today, to more fully ensure women’s equality. It reviews new legal scholarship that suggests direct applications of the Nineteenth Amendment to today’s voting rights challenges. And it describes how some scholars suggest that the Nineteenth should be read together with the Fourteenth Amendment, as a normative matter, to provide a more capacious understanding of the Fourteenth, as applied to women’s rights, beyond voting. Given persistent gender inequality, and the uncertain status of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), the chapter concludes that it is worth revisiting the jurisprudential potential of the Nineteenth Amendment, at its centennial.

scholarly journals The Politics of Language: "Feminism in Eastern Europe"

1970 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Lisa Mulholland
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Politics Of Language

In Eastern Europe, "feminism" is a dirty word. The same holds true for other words like "emancipation," "equal rights for women," and "women's liberation." Under communist regimes of the past, "emancipation" was imposed on women and given as the reason given for requiring women to leave their homes to become part of the labor force.

Fixing the Meaning of the Movement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie J. Dow
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
White Male ◽  
Network News ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Equal Rights Amendment ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Image Problems

This chapter focuses on the ABC documentary on the Ladies' Home Journal sit-in entitled “Women's Liberation,”, produced by reporter Marlene Sanders. The documentary is 1970's key example of a supportive reporter's self-conscious effort to represent the movement fairly. It also serves as the most developed example of network news' reliance on race–sex and feminism–civil rights analogies. In her memoir of her reporting career, Sanders makes clear that she saw the documentary as an intervention into poor media treatment of the movement, echoing the contention of many feminists that the movement's image problems resulted from reporting by men. Refuting negative stereotypes about women's liberation (including, importantly, man-hating) was among the program's central strategies, as was an analogy to the moderate civil rights movement. Sanders's effort to package feminism in comprehensible and commonsensical terms that would make sense to her imagined white male viewer resulted in an evolutionary liberal narrative that narrowed the meaning of the movement in crucial ways, diminishing rather than demonizing its radicalism and presenting the Equal Rights Amendment as the answer to what ailed women.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF FEMINIST IDEAS IN THE POETRY OF SOUAD AL-SABAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Farzizadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Yusefi ◽  
Shahriar Giti
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract: Feminism literally means "women's liberation"," womanism " which is itself divided into different ways. Feminism has sometimes been interpreted as organized movements for women's rights and sometimes for the theory that believes in equality between men and women in political, economic, social and legal terms. With the spread of the feminist movement, much work was written on women, and all of them had a fixed principle that was to remove the inferiority and inequalities that had been permitted to women throughout history. With the spread of such works, feminist literature emerged. And many poets and writers have created works in this regard. Kuwaiti poet Souad al-Sabah is one of these poets. In this study, we have tried to look at feminism and its implications in terms of feminism, including patriarchy, patriarchy, women's dependency, women's subordination, and lack of public presence in Souad al-Sabah 's poetry.

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