The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 41
... United States to offer a high school education to girls . Emma Willard was one of the great educators of her day . After 1838 she turned her attention to improvement of the common schools and worked with Henry Barnard in Connecti- cut ...
... United States to offer a high school education to girls . Emma Willard was one of the great educators of her day . After 1838 she turned her attention to improvement of the common schools and worked with Henry Barnard in Connecti- cut ...
Page 75
... United States . " She offered a documented survey of existing conditions and a detailed pro- gram for reform . She urged Congress to consider the insane " wards of the nation " and to finance their care with a federal land grant of five ...
... United States . " She offered a documented survey of existing conditions and a detailed pro- gram for reform . She urged Congress to consider the insane " wards of the nation " and to finance their care with a federal land grant of five ...
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... United States and began immediately to train one hundred women as army nurses . It soon became evident that a national relief agency was neces- sary . In June , 1861 , President Lincoln established the United States Sanitary Commission ...
... United States and began immediately to train one hundred women as army nurses . It soon became evident that a national relief agency was neces- sary . In June , 1861 , President Lincoln established the United States Sanitary Commission ...
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abolitionist American women Angelina Grimké Anne Hutchinson Anthony antislavery became 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 cultural 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 |