The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Banner, Lois W. Women in Modern America: A Brief History. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995.

Chafe, William Henry. The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Evans, Sara M. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

Sarkels, Sandra J., Susan Mallon Ross, and Margaret A. Lowe. From Megaphones to Microphones: Speeches of American Women, 1920-1960. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.

Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl Schneider. American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. New York: Facts on File, 1993.

Schneir, Miriam, ed. Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Sigerman, Harriet, ed. The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Ware, Susan, comp. Modern American Women: A Documentary History. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

The League of Women Voters, like most of the organizations mentioned in this essay, is still in existence and boasts a useful Website of its own:

http://www.lwv.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

For book length histories of the League and the movement it represents, try:

Fowler, Robert Booth. Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986.

Sharer, Wendy B. Vote And Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.

Stuhler, Barbara. For the Public Record: A Documentary History of the League of Women Voters. Westport, C.T.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

For up to date references for materials on Eleanor Roosevelt, go to the Website of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers project at George Washington University – books, Websites, lesson plans – the website is:

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/

The sources I’ve cited for the broader issues of the history of American women’s legal and Constitutional position in the essays by Dubois and Salmon should come in handy. For the history of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 20th century, try these books and websites:

Becker, Susan D. The Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment: American Feminism Between the Wars. Westport, C.T.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Feinberg, Renee. The Equal Rights Amendment: An Annotated Bibliography of the Issues, 1976-1985. Westport, C.T.: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Jeydel, Alana S. Political Women: The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, The Battle For Women's Suffrage and The ERA. London; New York: Routledge, 2004.

Steiner, Gilbert Y. Constitutional Inequality: The Political Fortunes of the Equal Rights Amendment. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1985.

Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party are studied in:

Butler, Amy E. Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul And Ethel M. Smith in the ERA Debate, 1921-1929. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Lunardini, Christine A. From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, 1910-1928. New York: New York University Press, 1986.

The National Equal Rights Amendment is still very much a live issue – see this Website:

http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/

The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, site for history of National Woman’s Party, provides another useful source on the Web:

http://www.sewallbelmont.org/

And don’t forget to search American Memory’s Women History Collections for Alice Paul, National Woman’s Party:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php? category=Women's%20History

Finally – I can’t resist this modest but compelling website for the Alice Paul Memorial March, 1977:

http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/AlicePaul1977.html

Here are some interesting studies of the changing role of African American women in movements to win rights for American women at large:

Andolsen, Barbara Hilkert. "Daughters of Jefferson, Daughters of Bootblacks": Racism and American Feminism. Macon, G.A.: Mercer University Press, 1986.

Gordon, Ann D., and Bettye Collier-Thomas, eds. African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Ruiz, Vicki L. and Ellen Carol DuBois, eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

As for the role of women at work in World War II, it’s hard to know where to start. I’ll send you to some of the most useful Websites on the subject. About.com provides a good list of Websites with materials on women at work during World War II:

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/rosie/

Also, check out the National Park Service’s excellent online exhibition on women in World War II. It provides first person memoirs, photos, posters, historical essays, the works:

http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/home.htm

Betty Friedan’s recent death means that you and your students will have a wealth of recent obituaries and articles on Friedan to choose from. In case you’ve forgotten, you might like to look at this new edition of her best known work – complete with introductions to all of the earlier editions:

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. Introduction by Anna Quindlen. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.

And look at her later memoir:

Friedan, Betty. The Second Stage. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

These are good general studies and documentary sources for women activists in the decades after World War II:

Berkeley, Kathleen C. The Women's Liberation Movement in America. Westport, C.T.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V.P. Franklin, eds. Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Crawford, Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, and Ann Snitow. The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.

Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

Harrison, Cynthia Ellen. On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945-1968. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Rupp, Leila J., and Verta A. Taylor. Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Abortion and reproductive rights are discussed in:

Nelson, Jennifer, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Solinger, Rickie, ed. Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

For changing aspects of women’s activism since 1980, see:

Brown, Ruth Murray. For a "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002.

Clift, Eleanor, and Tom Brazaitis. Madam President: Women Blazing the Leadership Trail. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Most of the individuals and organizations that have played major roles in reshaping the debate on women’s issues in recent years have their own Websites. Here are a few:

Emily’s List:

www.emilyslist.org

National Organization for Women:

www.now.org

Eagle Forum (to which Schlafly is a regular contributor):

www.eagleforum.org