Pre-Owned We Want Equal Rights!: The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on the Women's Rights Movement (Paperback) 1939053285 9781939053282

Imagine a world where a woman couldn't buy a home, had no rights to her own children, and couldn't even cast a vote. This was the situation in the United States until the early 1900s, when a group of brave and determined women, known as suffragists, changed the minds of a nation and sparked a movement to establish equal rights for women. Explore the little-known story of how these suffragists were inspired by the women of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), who were guaranteed rights equal to men. The freedoms Haudenosaunee women enjoyed in their everyday lives proved to both non-Native women and men that when women have equal rights, everyone benefits. Follow the lives of the suffragists and their interactions with their Haudenosaunee friends, and discover how this very special relationship changed the course of our country-from the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote to the women's movement of the 1970s to #MeToo. Book jacket.