San Antonio College Library

"The Historical Dictionary of Feminism: Second Edition is a resource for librarians, scholars, and students, with more than 1,000 entries covering significant people, organizations, campaigns, court cases, goals, achievements, and current and future directions of the feminist movement. Seventy-five percent of the entries are new or revised from the first edition, and the introduction, which provides an overview of the history and development of feminism...

"In this new study, Rebecca J. Mead shows that western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by western women. She highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement, and places special emphasis on the political adaptability of western suffragists...

Women's contribution to rhetoric throughout Western history, like so many other aspects of women's experience, has yet to be fully explored. In pathbreaking discussions ranging from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern times, sixteen closely coordinated essays examine how women have used language to reflect their vision of themselves and their age; how they have used traditional rhetoric and applied it to women's...

"Moving the Mountain tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved "half a revolution" between 1960 and 1990. In this book, Flora Davis presents a grass-roots view of the small steps and giant leaps that have changed laws and institutions as well as the assumptions, prejudices, and unspoken rules governing a woman's place in American society. Looking at every major feminist issue from the point of view of the...