The equal rights amendment (era) is a proposed amendment to the united states constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters the era was originally written by. Prolific, so much so that an annotated bibliography was compiled in 1986 see renee feinburg, the equal rights amendment: an annotated bibliography of the issues, 1976-1985 (westport, conn: greenwood press, 1986) while this dissertation cites many of these sources and cites them in the bibliography, for. Three decades after the equal rights amendment: mormon women and american public perception by j b haws j b haws ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of church history and doctrine at byu for mormons who are interested in what the media is saying about their faith (meaning most mormons), there. Uc merced electronic theses and dissertations title the equal rights amendment and the case of the rescinding states: a comparative historical analysis permalink https://escholarshiporg/uc/item/7bg4s908 author lerma, veronica monique publication date 2015-01-01 peer reviewed|thesis/ dissertation. In march 1972, the equal rights amendment to the united states con- stitution— the era—passed the us senate by a vote of 84 to 8 two thirds of the states were then expected to ratify the era in order to complete the process required for amending the constitution yet on june 30, 1982, the.
The national organization for women and the fight for the equal rights amendment - jacqueline herrmann - seminar paper - american studies - culture and applied geography - publish your bachelor's or master's thesis, dissertation, term paper or essay. Essay the equal rights amendment equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex in 1923, this statement was admitted to congress under the equal rights amendment (era) the era was a proposed amendment to the united states constitution. Kentucky equal rights association (kera) was the first permanent statewide women's rights organization in kentucky founded in november 1888, the kera voted in 1920 to transmute itself into the kentucky league of women voters to continue its many and diverse progressive efforts on behalf of women's rights. Suffragist, women's rights activist, and author of the original equal rights amendment (era), alice paul (1885–1977) devoted her entire life advocating for women's alice paul graduated from swarthmore college in 1905, and later earned a doctorate from the university of pennsylvania where her dissertation was on the.
Alice paul was the leader of the more militant suffrage and equal rights organization called the national woman's party after campaigning in england with the abrupt change in leadership in the national woman's party which occurred at that time is a fertile subject for theses of the future regardless of her continuing. Barnwell, cherron annette “the dialogics of self in the autobiographies of african- american public women: ida b wells, shirley chisholm, angela davis, and anita hill” phd dissertation, howard university, 2002 brown, delindus r, and wanda f anderson “a survey of the black woman and the persuasion process. The equal rights amendment, first proposed in 1923, was the culmination of over a century's worth of women's activism attempting to remove the strictures of coverture and to recognize women as citizens in their own right this dissertation explores a volume of letters to kansas legislators expressing anti- era sentiment.
This dissertation examines nevada‟s equal rights amendment ratification campaign spanning from 1973 through 1981 using legislative records, newspapers, archival records, oral histories and interviews this work traces the creation of two distinct political cultures that arose in nevada during this period women from. Approval of an equal rights amendment to the swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and we find that, in communities where people strongly approved the constitutional amendment on equal rights second, a dissertation at the university of berne investigating unequal pay between women and men. The devil is in the details: nebraska's rescission of the proposed equal rights amendment, 1972-1973 elizabeth f schnieder a thesis submitted to the graduate college of bowling green state university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts may 2010.