The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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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 ... America , as well as in Britain , suffered under severe legal disabilities ... colonial newspapers , they availed themselves of the opportunity quite ...
... Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property ... America , as well as in Britain , suffered under severe legal disabilities ... colonial newspapers , they availed themselves of the opportunity quite ...
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Gerda Lerner. Economic Status Colonial America was an underdeveloped country ; it could not afford the luxury of idle hands . Besides , Protestant religious doctrine supported the belief that idleness was sinful . There- fore , work for ...
Gerda Lerner. Economic Status Colonial America was an underdeveloped country ; it could not afford the luxury of idle hands . Besides , Protestant religious doctrine supported the belief that idleness was sinful . There- fore , work for ...
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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 |