The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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... institutions they built , and the ideas they developed about the world and their place in it are part of the background of our own time . In understanding this background better , we learn to understand ourselves and our society better ...
... institutions they built , and the ideas they developed about the world and their place in it are part of the background of our own time . In understanding this background better , we learn to understand ourselves and our society better ...
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... institutions in the West . Great as were Catherine Beecher's contributions to teacher training , she subscribed to a narrow view of woman's sphere . To her , housewifery and motherhood were the chief functions of a woman's life , and ...
... institutions in the West . Great as were Catherine Beecher's contributions to teacher training , she subscribed to a narrow view of woman's sphere . To her , housewifery and motherhood were the chief functions of a woman's life , and ...
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... institution , the New York Infirmary for Women , to enable her and several other women doctors to earn a precarious living . The Philadelphia Female Medical College , founded in 1853 , was the first institution of its kind . It took ...
... institution , the New York Infirmary for Women , to enable her and several other women doctors to earn a precarious living . The Philadelphia Female Medical College , founded in 1853 , was the first institution of its kind . It took ...
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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 |