The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 34
... cause of a " Turkish costume , " first worn in America by the unconven- tional British actress Fanny Kemble . Mrs. Bloomer , soon per- suaded of the advantages of pantaloons gathered chastely at the ankles and topped by a belted smock ...
... cause of a " Turkish costume , " first worn in America by the unconven- tional British actress Fanny Kemble . Mrs. Bloomer , soon per- suaded of the advantages of pantaloons gathered chastely at the ankles and topped by a belted smock ...
Page 123
... cause for very practical reasons . It was tragic to have an alcoholic in the family , in view of the total legal and economic dependency of wives on their husbands . The fear of drunken- ness was thus very real to many women . The ...
... cause for very practical reasons . It was tragic to have an alcoholic in the family , in view of the total legal and economic dependency of wives on their husbands . The fear of drunken- ness was thus very real to many women . The ...
Page 162
... cause . They drew up a formal contract specifying that Mrs. Catt would have several months of the year during which she could devote her- self to the cause of suffrage . Since Mr. Catt's business took him out of town a good deal of the ...
... cause . They drew up a formal contract specifying that Mrs. Catt would have several months of the year during which she could devote her- self to the cause of suffrage . Since Mr. Catt's business took him out of town a good deal of the ...
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abolitionist American women Angelina Grimké Anne Hutchinson Anthony antislavery became Beecher birth control black women Boston campaign career Carrie Chapman Catt cause Charlotte Perkins Charlotte Perkins Gilman child church cities Civil College colonial America colonial women contribution death decades developed Dorothea Dix economic Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emma equal factory federal amendment female suffrage feminist field Frances Frances Wright freedom frontier Gilman girls Grimké Grimké sisters Harriet husband industry Jane Addams labor ladies later leaders leadership legislation literary lives Lucretia Mott male Margaret Sanger marriage married Mary Baker Eddy Massachusetts ment mother National NAWSA nineteenth century nurses NWTUL organized percent pioneer plantation political President reform role Sarah Sarah Grimké sisters slave slavery social society soldiers South southern status struggle suffragists Susan teachers tion United vote wages Willard wives woman suffrage woman's rights movement workers York
References to this book
Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |