Women's Movements & the Law

Welcome McHenry County College celebrates Women's History Month! Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week." Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as "Women’s History Week." In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month." Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, US presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month

Get sources on the American women's rights & suffrage.

This guide provides information about Tarana Burke, founder of the "me too." Movement and the September 2018 Dorothy Garrett Martin Lecturer on Ethics and Values.

A Subject Guide providing suggested resources and other information for beginning research on the topic Sex Work.

Research guide on Reproductive Rights including abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, contraception, genetic screening, sterilization, and surrogacy.

Guide to print and online resources, both legal and interdisciplinary, for feminist legal theory research.

Guide to primary sources documenting feminist movements at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in the Rubenstein Library.

A guide to finding primary source accounts of United States history at the Valley Cottage Library.

This guide provides reliable resources pertaining to the study of gender, sexuality, LGBT+ issues and more. This guide includes access to books, journals, databases, primary source materials and reference sources in the discipline.

Dr. Chiu Chang (邱彰博士) personal collection

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

A selection of sources concerning legislation and different perspectives around the topic of abortion and reproductive rights.

This guide offers an introduction to reproductive health and rights resources located in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University's Rubenstein Library.

Fighting for the human rights of people in the sex trades

PDF | On Oct 17, 2013, Stephanie Wahab and others published Ethical and Human Rights Issues in Coercive Interventions With Sex Workers | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

This summary report provides an overview of the key research findings, highlighting the range and extent of human rights abuses and violations suffered by sex workers. It shows how sex workers face stigma and marginalization, physical and sexual violence, barriers to protection from violence and crime, extortion and coercive police measures, and obstacles to securing […]

Sex work was not a prominent public issue in the USA a generation ago. Law and law enforcement were fairly settled. Over the past two decades, however, a robust campaign has sought to intensify the stigmatization and criminalization of the participants involved in all types of sex work, which are now conflated with human trafficking. These efforts have been remarkably successful in reshaping government policy and legal norms and in enhancing penalties for existing offenses. The article analyzes these developments within the framework of a modernized version of moral crusade theory that includes both instrumental and expressive arguments against sex work.

Sex workers' rights encompass a variety of aims being pursued globally by individuals and organizations that specifically involve the human, health, and labor rights of sex workers and their clients. The goals of these movements are diverse, but generally aim to legalize or decriminalize sex work, as well as to destigmatize it, regulate it and ensure fair treatment before legal and cultural forces on a local and international level for all persons in the sex industry.

Women and the Law (Peggy) is a collection that brings together books, biographies, and periodicals to provide a convenient platform for users to research the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.

This guide is designed teach young women ages 15-21 about the #MeToo Movement and related issues of Feminism and Sexual Harassment.