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Gender : roles & rights / by Micah L. Issitt.

by Issitt, Micah L., author.

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Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, Incorporated, [2018]

Sex role -- United States -- History -- Sources.

Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.

Gay rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.

Transgender people -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.

xxxv, 764 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Introduction -- Historical timeline -- Citizenship and constitutional rights: -- 1. From the Colonies to the U.S.: women ruled by patriarchs (1777) -- 2. Seneca Falls, women and citizenship: sentiments of sisterhood (1848) -- 3. Women's right to vote: the 19th Amendment (1920) -- 4. State marriage bans: first state to ban discrimination based on gender (1993) -- Sexual nonconformity and changing policy: -- 5. Homosexuality in colonial America: Thomas Jefferson's drastic measures (1778) -- 6. Hirschfeld's studies: transforming gender and sexuality (1910, 1923) -- 7. Homosexuality is not a mental illness: American Psychiatric Association reclassifies (1952, 1973) -- In the workplace: -- 8. Women wartime workers: new gender norms (1917, 1944) -- 9. Title IX: gender discrimination in education (1972) -- 10. Phillips v. Martin Marietta: gender discrimination in the workplace (1973) -- 11. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson: sexual misconduct in the workplace (1986) -- 12. Repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell": LGBTQ service members now openly serve (2010) -- 13. Military ban against women lifted: women no longer limited to non-combat roles (2013) -- 14. Hillary Clinton runs for President: gender bias and American voters (2016) --15. #Me Too Movement: sexual hierarchy and abuse (2016-2018) -- LGBTQ+ rights: -- 16. The Stonewall Riots: birth of the Gay Rights Movement (1969) -- 17. Supreme Court and sexual behavior: court rules to decriminalize same-sex behavior (2003) -- 18. Transgender access to public bathrooms: fight for gender-neutral bathrooms (2013) -- Birth control and reproduction: -- 19. Margaret Sanger's birth control clinic: the right not to reproduce (1916) -- 20. Roe v. Wade: legalization of abortion (1973) -- 21. Men's rights: anti-feminism and the Men's Rights Movement (1976, 2009) -- Marriage and parenting: -- 22. Married women in early America: fight for property rights and child custody (1848) -- 23. The Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act: no-fault divorce (1970) -- 24. Transgender marriage: legalization of marriage based on gender identity (1976) -- 25. The Violence Against Women Act: married or not, violence against women is a crime (1994) -- 26. Adoption by same-sex couples: first state to allow same-sex couples to adopt jointly (1997) -- 27. Joint Parenting Movement: shared custody becomes the norm (2017) -- 28. Transgender parenting rights: in the best interests of the child (1973-2018) -- Conclusion: Ideas about gender.

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This new series from Grey House offers in-depth, single volumes that follow the debate, or path, to a decision on a controversial topic as it evolved throughout history. Each volume offers a wide range of opinion essays and editorials, speeches, and journal articles and expert analysis. This volume tracks the changing national views on gender roles. Historian at-large Micah Issitt traces the path of gender politics in American society, with each chapter providing insightful commentary on a selected primary source. Drawing from the popular press, key court and legislative battles, speeches, social activism and opinion polls, Opinions Throughout History: Gender Roles offers readers mixed sources of information woven together to highlight the overall momentum of developing public opinion. As forces compete to move the needle of popular thought on this issue, readers will see the push and pull tension between traditional and modern definitions of prescribed gender roles. Issues discussed include historic patterns of gender balance, religion's role in community organization, feminism's impact on defining gender roles for men and women at home and in the workplace, family-centered social policy, the backlash against progressive gender politics, the gender pay parity movement, and the passionate activism of #metoo as a response to corporate and government workplace sexual harassment. Gender Roles provides an essential resource for history and social studies research and an accessible commentary on the ways in which the idea of gender roles have evolved. Each chapter includes an introduction and conclusion, bulleted topics covered and discussion questions. (Publisher)

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