A voice of our own : leading American women celebrate the right to vote / edited by Nancy M. Neuman ; foreword by Becky Cain.

Other author Neuman, Nancy M., 1936-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSan Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, ©1996.
Descriptionxix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women--Suffrage. --United States.
Women--Political activity. --United States.

Contents My vote, my self / Mary Chapin Carpenter -- Impact / Gwen Ifill -- Finding America / Rebecca Walker -- Women who shaped the Constitution / Rosalynn Carter -- Lessons from the woman suffrage movement / Lucinda Desha Robb -- The politics of sisterhood / Elisabeth Griffith -- The women's movement across generations / Sarah McClendon -- American democracy : a Puerto Rican perspective / Sara E. Meléndez -- No more sound of silence / Martina Navratilova -- A gift of the spirit / Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod -- Turning the world rightside up / Beverly J. Harvard -- Or you can get to work / Ada E. Deer -- Gender, race, and democracy / Diane C. Yu -- Cartoon / Nicole Hollander -- Women, work, and family / Judy Woodruff -- Do what is right / Esther Peterson -- My life with the League of Women Voters / Anne Firor Scott -- Keepers of the culture / Corinne C. "Lindy" Boggs -- My democracy / Barbara Davis Blum -- Challenges and change in one women's life / Rosalynn Carter -- Equal opportunity for recovery / Betty Ford -- Harvard medicine in the women's era / Bernadine Healy -- Our collective challenges / Donna Shalala -- Whose nation is this? / Antonia Hernández -- A call to action / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Entering the twenty-first century, on our own terms / Wilma P. Mankiller -- Small steps, giant leaps / Condoleezza Rice -- My daugher's generation / Maria Luisa Mercado -- Imagining the real future / Nancy Y. Bekavac.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 96001349
ISBN0787902314 (acid-free paper)