Baker, Jean H., ed., Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited, Viewpoints on American Culture series, Oxford University Press, 2002.

This book includes eleven essays, which collectively give an overview of the American women's suffrage movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The discussion includes key figures such as Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth and key events such as the 1848 gathering at Seneca Falls, New York. In addition, the book features an introductory essay by Baker that gives the suffrage movement context within other events of the times.

Crittenden, Ann, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued, Owl Books, 2002.

In this book, Crittenden, a noted economic journalist, asserts that mothers are penalized for their childbearing role. Whether mothers stay at home, work, are single or married, Crittenden uses studies and financial facts to show that...