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One Hundred Years of Women Debating the Equal Rights Amendment

An Anthology, 1923–2023

Melody Lehn Camille Lewis

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
31 October 2024
December 13, 2023, marked the one-hundred-year anniversary of the ERA’s first introduction in Congress. The time is therefore ripe for revisiting how women across generations have argued that gender equality might reshape and reimagine our democracy.

In contrast to narratives that begin with passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and then propel us forward to the 1970s, this edited collection of primary texts comprehensively surveys women’s arguments about the ERA from its inception through the present day. Together and apart, these texts reveal the nuanced, complicated, and sometimes contradictory ways that women have contemplated the question of whether we need the ERA. As this next generation forges ahead to keep the ERA alive, we are left to wonder: Will women remain divided on the ERA? Will it take another century to see it enshrined in the U.S. Constitution? The ERA debate, nevertheless, persists.
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Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   666g
ISBN:   9781636675053
ISBN 10:   1636675050
Pages:   382
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Melody Lehn is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Her research on women’s rhetoric has appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and several edited collections in political communication and rhetorical history. Camille K. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Furman University. Her book, Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism (2007), is a scholarly attempt to stretch conservative evangelical’s separatist frames. The story of that publication is available at The KB Journal.

Reviews for One Hundred Years of Women Debating the Equal Rights Amendment: An Anthology, 1923–2023

“Comprehensive and sweeping, this book is a tremendous achievement. Through women’s debates over the Equal Rights Amendment, Lehn and Lewis expertly reconstruct a century of women’s self-definitions and advocacy. In these pages, we meet familiar and surprising figures whose arguments ground a deeper, richer understanding of equality: that basic American value whose meaning has been anything but simple. The book offers the timely reminder that women have been both unequal citizens and essential drivers of the democratic process. The questions explored here remain as pressing as ever: what do women need to live in America on their own terms, and what will it take for that nation to live up to its own founding ideals of equality and justice?” —Katherine Turk, author of The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America


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