Announcing The "Second Wave" and Beyond, a free online "scholarly community" of feminist thinkers
to discuss and record the history of feminist activism since 1960. Learn more>>
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Since President John F. Kennedy appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to chair the first national Commission on the
Status of Women in 1961, local, state, and federal commissions have been collecting a wealth of information
documenting conditions in the lives of American women. This edition of Primary Sources of the Women's Movement, 1960 to present includes the full text of 590 reports and publications issued by commissions in more than thirty states. Particular care has been taken to index these publications so that their contents can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. |
When complete, this collection will contain 75,000 pages of reports published by commissions in all fifty US states, as well as associated pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials. The collection was developed with the guidance of Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin of the State University of New York at Binghamton, who will contribute introductory essays and usage guides.
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