The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 29
... later railroads led to a revolution in agriculture and commerce , and spurred westward migration and the growth of cities . Women shared in the benefits of increasing wealth , urbanization and industrialization . Middle - class women of ...
... later railroads led to a revolution in agriculture and commerce , and spurred westward migration and the growth of cities . Women shared in the benefits of increasing wealth , urbanization and industrialization . Middle - class women of ...
Page 93
... later became a permanent part of the armed forces . Thousands of women saw service as war nurses and helped to establish nursing as a profession . The end of the war saw women firmly entrenched in several new fields of work ...
... later became a permanent part of the armed forces . Thousands of women saw service as war nurses and helped to establish nursing as a profession . The end of the war saw women firmly entrenched in several new fields of work ...
Page 153
... later wrote , " Mother bore eleven children . She died at forty - eight . My father lived until he was eighty . " This simple fact haunted Margaret Higgins ' childhood . Although her father was a kind husband , she always felt that her ...
... later wrote , " Mother bore eleven children . She died at forty - eight . My father lived until he was eighty . " This simple fact haunted Margaret Higgins ' childhood . Although her father was a kind husband , she always felt that her ...
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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 |