The Rights of Women; The Basic ACLU Guide To A Woman's Rights
Published by Avon Books/Discus Books, New York, 1973
- First Edition
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384 pages. Appendix (including charts and Publications and Other Sources of Information). The book has a creased spine, a crease at the top front right corner, and some moisture staining along the bottom of the book. Number in ink at top of first page. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. This is an American Civil Liberties Union Handbook. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Special Editor) and Norman Dorsen (General Editor) and Aryeh Neier (General Editor). In a question-and-answer format, the legal statutes governing women's rights in relation to employment, education, divorce, and birth control and abortion are explained. Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys. Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, to be free from sexual violence, to vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, to work, to fair wages or equal pay, to have reproductive rights, to own property, and to education. When a roomful of civil liberties activists — led by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, and Albert DeSilver — formed the ACLU in 1920, the Supreme Court had yet to uphold a single free speech claim. Activists languished in jail for distributing anti-war literature. State-sanctioned violence against African-Americans was routine. Women won the right to vote only in August of that year. The ACLU was founded to ensure the promise of the Bill of Rights and to expand its reach to people historically denied its protections. In our first year, we fought the harassment and deportation of immigrants whose activism put them at odds with the authorities. In 1939, we won in the Supreme Court the right for unions to organize. We stood almost alone in 1942 in denouncing our government’s round-up and internment in concentration camps of more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans. And at times in our history when frightened civilians have been willing to give up some of their freedoms and rights in the name of national security, the ACLU has been the bulwark for liberty. From the ACLU website: Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, the ACLU Women’s Rights Project pushes for change and systemic reform in institutions that perpetuate discrimination against women, focusing its work in the areas of employment, violence against women, and education. In the employment realm, laws and workplace policies that exclude women from certain job sectors and allow them to be forced out of the workplace when they become pregnant or return to work after having a baby cause persistent disparities in women’s income, wealth, and economic security. Survivors of gender-based violence face discrimination when police, schools, landlords, and other institutions fail to adequately address and prevent violence and also when laws and policies penalize them, impeding the ability of women and girls to live safely and with dignity. In the education sector, many public schools have introduced programs based on unfounded stereotypes about the learning abilities and preferences of boys and girls, limiting equal educational opportunities for all.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Rights of Women; The Basic ACLU Guide To A Woman's Rights
- Author
- Ross, Susan C.
- Publisher
- Avon Books/Discus Books, New York
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Mass market paperback
- Edition
- First Discus Printing [stated].
- Seller catalogs
- Discrimination, Feminism
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