Bella Abzug's Legacy: Her Times, Her Work, and Women Like Her

=National Council for Research on Women Member Center

=Contain Lesson Plans and Resources for Teachers

BOOKS

• Brill, Alida ed., A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide (New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995).
• Freedman, Jo. We Will Be Heard: Women’s Struggle for Political Power in the United States (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
• Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, Changing Differences: Women and the shaping of American foreign policy, 1917-1994 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995).
• Kelber, Mim. Women and Government: New Ways to Political Power (Westport: Praeger, 1994).
• Kunin, Madeleine. Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead (White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008).

• Evans, Sara. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End (New York: The Free Press, 2003).
• Levine, Suzanne. She’s Nobody’s Baby: A History of American Women in the Twentieth Century (New York. Simon & Schuster, 1983).
• Morgan, Robin ed., Sisterhood is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium (New York: Washington Square Press, 2003).
• Morgan, Robin ed., Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1996).
• Morgan, Robin ed., Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (New York: Vintage Books, 1970).
• Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America (New York: Penguin Putnam, 2000).
• Ruiz, Vicki L. and Ellen Carol DuBois, eds. Unequal Sisters: An Inclusive Reader in U.S. Women's History (New York: Routledge, 2008).
• Schneir, Miriam ed., Feminism in Our Time: the Essential Writings, World War II to the present (New York: Vintage Books, 1994).
• Thom, Mary ed., Letters to Ms. 1972-1987 (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1988).
• Thom, Mary. Inside Ms.: 25 Years of the Magazine and the Feminist Movement. (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1997).

• Faber, Doris. Bella Abzug. (New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd, 1976).
• Swerdlow, Amy. Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960 (New York: Dutton, 1993).

WEB RESOURCES

• Main Exhibit: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/agents/index.html [1]
• Curriculum: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/curriculum/index.html [2]
• New Resources on 20th Century Women’s Activism, including primary sources and lesson plans. Sections of the exhibit spotlight individual women (Dorothy Kenyon, Gloria Steinem, Mary Metlay Kaufman, Constance Baker Motley, Frances Fox Piven, and Jessie Lloyd O’Connor) as well as the work of organizations run by women such as the National Congress of Neighborhood Women (NCNW) and the Women’s Action Alliance (WAA).

• Main Exhibit: http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/abzug/ [3]
• Bibliography: http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/abzug/babib.html [4]
• Online exhibit on Abzug as part of the Archive’s “Women of Valor” series. Includes a biography of Abzug, a series of “stories” on different milestones in her life and career, multimedia components (photos, audio clips, and movie clips). See the exhibit’s extensive bibliography for a list of sources for further research.

• Main site: http://www.nwhp.org/ [5]
• Resource Center: http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/index.php [6]
• Online home of National Women’s History month. This website includes a resource center featuring information and activities for use by researchers, students, and teachers relating to the history of the women’s movement and its leaders.

• Main Site: http://womenincongress.house.gov/index.html [7]
• Lesson Plans: http://womenincongress.house.gov/educational/index.html [8]
• Website on the history and accomplishments of women in Congress. Includes biographies of congresswomen, artifacts, educational resources and lesson plans.

• Main Site: http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/womens_leadership/index.html [9]
• Accompanying Curriculum: http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/women_curriculum07/index.php [10]
• Timeline of Milestones in Leadership in American History: http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/womens_leadership/milestones/index.html [11]
• The CUNY/New York Times Knowledge Network 2006 Women’s Leadership Calendar is a comprehensive resource on the history of women’s leadership in America. It highlights the role of women as leaders in family, community, public service, business, labor, and society. Each month of the calendar concentrates on a particular theme, such as civil rights and suffrage, motherhood, and women’s liberation, and recognizes individual women who have made remarkable contributions to society. The calendar is part of a larger CUNY project to understand and inspire women’s leadership by exploring its historical context and investigating its current challenges.

• Main Site: http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/index.html [12]
• Teacher’s Corner: http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/teacher/teacherindex.htm [13]
• An online historical resource that focuses on women’s roles in social movements in the United States from the colonial period through the modern era. Of special interest are the document collections on the Houston conference, which Abzug helped to organize and lead.
  • “How Did the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977Shape a Feminist Agenda for the Future?”
    Introduction: http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/dp59/intro.htm [14]
    Document List: http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/dp59/doclist.htm [15]

Know more great resources? Please send any corrections, additions, or creative ideas to lhorton@ncrw.org [16] with subject "Abzug Resources." Thank you for participating in this project.