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Struggle for Women's Rights, The: Theoretical and Historical Sources

George Klosko, University of Virginia

Margaret G. Klosko, University of Virginia

Struggle for Women's Rights, The: Theoretical and Historical Sources

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Appropriate for women's studies, history, and political science courses dealing with gender politics and the history of women's rights. This text presents theoretical and historical sources focusing on a single issue, the struggle for women's suffrage. It explores women's nature and discusses how different views of women's nature have direct implications concerning public policies.

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Includes substantial selections from anti-suffrage sources These readings are important because they:
- The only text to feature an in-depth debate on one of the most important issue of the Women's Movement: the right to vote.
- Are not widely available and are not included in any other collection of readings.
- Provide both sides of the debate, allowing students to see how the debates developed andhow arguments were presented.
- Enable students to trace the practical implications of widely different conceptions of women's nature.

Presents historical and theoretical sources, including substantial selections from the important theoretical works of J.S. Mill and Mary Wolstonecraft.

Includes sources from both the U.S. and Britain.

Narrow focus allows one to follow different lines of argument directed at a single issue, as opposed to a set of widely different debates, as are common in most other collections.

Selections present clear accounts of different conceptions of women's nature and their practical implications providing historical, as well as, theoretical insights.

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