Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer: 

Women’s Rights-
What influenced the beginning of the women’s rights movement?
What influenced the women who led the women’s rights movement? Which women became leaders? Where were they from? Why were they able to gain a public role?
What kind of opposition did women in the early women’s rights movement face?

Please try and use cites from these sources:

"Women's Rights Movements." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online,2014. Web. 1 July 2014. 17 Oct 2016

Hurley, Jennifer A. Women's Rights. San Diego, Calif: Greenhaven, 2002. Print.Great Speeches in History Ser. The Art Institutes Library Catalog

Lapidus, Lenora M., Namita Luthra, and Emily J. Martin. The Rights of Women. 4th ed. New York: New York UP, 2009. Print. An American Civil Liberties Union Handbook. The Art Institutes Library Catalog


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