Women's history
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Women's history is a term that refers to information about the past in reguards to the female human being, in contrast to a history from a feminist perspective (called Herstory). When used as the name of a field of study within women's studies, "women's history" refers to the study and interpretation of women's suffrage. The history of women in the United States dates back to colonial era and condition for women varied greatly.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the sexual revolution changed substantial the condition of women in the Western world. The trigger for the revolution was the development of the birth control pill in 1960, which gave women access to easy and reliable contraception.
Related articles
The following is a list of links either about women's history, or containing relevant information, often in a "History" section.
- Women's organizations : a List of women's organizations
- Equal Rights Amendment : a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would have guaranteed equal rights under law for Americans regardless of gender.
- Suffragette members of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Suffragist is a more general term for members of the movement, whether radical or conservative, male or female. American women preferred this more inclusive title but people in the United States who were hostile to suffrage for the American woman used the UK title.
- A History of Woman Suffrage : A history book of the suffrage movement, primarily in the United States, comp-ose of six volumes from 1887 to 1922.
- Men's League for Women's Suffrage : a society formed in 1907 by the left-wing writers Henry Brailsford, Max Eastman, Laurence Housman, Henry Nevinson and others to pursue women's suffrage.
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization in the US and worldwide.