Equal Rights Amendment
(see also Women's Movements)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts
National Organization for Women
In the Library: Articles
Baker, Debra. "The fight ain't over: the Equal Rights Amendment died in 1982, but supporters are trying to breathe new life into the cause in Congress & state legislatures," ABA Journal 85 (8/99):52-56.
Kenneally, J.J. "Women divided: the Catholic struggle for an Equal Rights Amendment, 1923-1945," Catholic Historical Review 75,2 (4/89):249-63.
Kilgarlin, W.W. & B. Tarver. "The Equal Rights Amendment: governmental action & individual liberty," Texas Law Review 68 &6/90):1545-72.
Kyvig, D.E. "Historical misunderstanding & the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment," Public Historian 18,1 (win 96):45-63.
Pfeffer, P.F. "Eleanor Roosevelt & the National & World Woman's Parties: Equal Rights Amendment, American feminist history," Historian 59,1 (fall 96):39-57.
Rhoads, Heather. "ERA fight, 1990s style," Progressive (11/92):14.
Shin, Annys. "Reviving the ERA," Ms. Magazine (2-3/00):26-28.
Steiner, Andy. "Equal rights redux," Utne Reader (1-2/00):18-20.
Thom, Mary. "How we didn't get there," Ms. Magazine (3-4/91):83-86.
White, O.K. "Mormonism & the Equal Rights Amendment," Journal of Church & State 31,2 (spr 89):249-67.
Zimmerman, J.G. "The jurisprudence of equality: the women's minimum wage, the first equal rights amendment, & Adkins vs. Children's Hospital, 1905-1923," Journal of American History 78,1 (6/91):188-25.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Boles, Janet K. The Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment: Conflict & the Decision Process (NY: Longman, 1979).
Bright, Susan. Eulogy for the ERA (Austin: Plain View, 1982).
Feeley, Dianne. Why Women Need the Equal Rights Amendment (NY: Pathfinder, 1973).
Feinberg, Renee. The Equal Rights Amendment: An Annotated Bibliography of the Issues, 1976-1985 (NY: Greenwood, 1986).
Jeydel, Alan S. Political Women: The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage & the ERA (NY: Routledge, 2004).
Slavin, Sarah (ed.) The Equal Rights Amendment: The Politics & Process of Ratification of the 27th Amendment to the US Constitution (NY: Haworth, 1982).