A Voice of Our Own Leading American Women Celebrate the Right to Vote

by Neuman, Nancy M.

• ISBN13: 9780470630877
• ISBN10: 0470630876
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-02
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Prominent activists, academics, politicians, journalists, mothers, and daughters celebrate the indomitable spirit of the American woman and reflect on what democracy means to women's lives.

Author Biography

NANCY M. NEUMAN is former president of the League of Women Voters and author of The League of Women Voters in Perspective 1920-1995 (1994). A lecturer and writer on women in politics and public policy, she has been a distinguished visiting professor at Washington and Jefferson College, Bucknell University, and Pomona College.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

A Vote of Our Own

My Vote, My Self

Impact

Finding America

Our Struggle for Full Citizenship

Women Who Shaped the Constitution

Lessons from the Women's Suffrage Movement

The Politics of Sisterhood

The Women's Movement Across Generations

American Democracy: A Puerto Rican Perspective

No More Sounds of Silence

Breaking the Barriers of Discrimination

A Gift of the Spirit

Turning the World Rightside Up

Or You Can Get to Work

GAnder, Race, and Democracy

Family, Work, and Community

Women, Work, and Family

Do What is Right

My Life with the League of Women Voters

Keepers of the Culture

My Democracy

Challenges and Change in One Woman's Life

Our Collective Challenges

Equal Opportunity for Recovery

Harvard Medicine in the Woman's Era

Our Collective Challenges

Whose Nation is This?

For the Next Generation

A Call to Action

Entering the Twenty-First Century--On Our Own Terms

Small Steps, Giant Leaps (Condoleezza Rice)

My Daughter's Generation

Imagining the Real Future

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