Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Graves, Kristina Marie URN etd-07192006-183041 Title Stop Taking Our Privileges! The Anti-ERA Movement in Georgia, 1978-1982 Degree Master of Arts Department History Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Michelle Brattain Committee Chair Charles Steffen Committee Member Hugh Hudson Committee Member Keywords
- Equal Rights Amendment
- STOP ERA
- Phyllis Schlafly
- Kathryn Fink Dunaway
- Lee Wysong
- Georgia
- Georgia politics
- Georgia General Assembly
- Southern politics
- New Right
- Conservatism
- Grassroots activism
- Women's movement
- Feminist movement
Date of Defense 2006-06-01 Availability unrestricted Abstract Graves discusses the important role that women played in the anti-ERA campaign in Georgia during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a controversial and divisive piece of legislation that polarized both legislators and constituents throughout the United States. Graves uses the anti-ERA campaign in Georgia as a model for studying the women who opposed the ERA on a national level. She writes about the differences between the feminist movement and the conservative grassroots movement, the role that anti-ERA women played in the rise of the New Right, and the legacy of the ERA’s failure in contemporary political context. Graves uses interviews and primary resource documents of the women involved in the campaign as well as a plethora of scholarly materials previously written about the ERA.Files
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