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ERIC Number: EJ403149
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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Women in American Constitutional History at the Bicentennial.
Hoff-Wilson, Joan
History Teacher, v22 n2 p145-76 Feb 1989
Discusses the changing legal status of women from the American Revolution to the present. Divides discussion into five major constitutional periods. Describes the "Broken Barometer" theory in which laws passed for the benefit of women are actually an indicator of their past needs rather than their present concerns. (RW)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Discriminatory Legislation, Females, Feminism, History Instruction, Political Science, Social Change, United States History, Womens Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: United States Constitution
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