Women’s Rights in the United States: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Issues, Events and People

This is one of the best and most comprehensive encyclopedias on this subject or many others that this reviewer has ever seen. The entries could almost be read in a continuous fashion like a novel. But it can also be used as it is intended, as a scholarly reference work on women’s rights in the USA. The work is divided into four volumes: Volume I Moral Reform and the Woman Question (1776-1870); Volume II Suffrage and a New Wave of Women’s Activism (1870-1950); Volume III Civil Rights and Modern Feminism (1950-1990); and Volume IV Third Wave and...