The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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... colonial society was that the subordinate position of women was natural , sanctioned by tradition and religion , and beneficial to society as a whole . Yet , from the start , the American ... America , and had a much wider range of ...
... colonial society was that the subordinate position of women was natural , sanctioned by tradition and religion , and beneficial to society as a whole . Yet , from the start , the American ... America , and had a much wider range of ...
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Gerda Lerner. CHAPTER ONE The Colonial Woman Women in colonial America enjoyed greater freedom than did women in contemporary Europe , yet their ability to determine their own lives was limited then , as it is now , by the ideas society ...
Gerda Lerner. CHAPTER ONE The Colonial Woman Women in colonial America enjoyed greater freedom than did women in contemporary Europe , yet their ability to determine their own lives was limited then , as it is now , by the ideas society ...
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... Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property , allowing her a share and her personal clothing in case of a legal separation . Colonial courts also ... Colonial America was an underdeveloped country ; it 14.
... Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property , allowing her a share and her personal clothing in case of a legal separation . Colonial courts also ... Colonial America was an underdeveloped country ; it 14.
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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 |