The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 105
... lives of women - family , home , work , politics — the war disrupted life , shattered tradition , and created change . Southern women , especially , were forced out of their sheltered homes and into new roles as breadwinners , educators ...
... lives of women - family , home , work , politics — the war disrupted life , shattered tradition , and created change . Southern women , especially , were forced out of their sheltered homes and into new roles as breadwinners , educators ...
Page 187
... lives . For most women , a maximum of twenty - five years is devoted to childraising , leaving some thirty years free to perform other social functions . Statistics bear this out : the life - work span of the average American male is ...
... lives . For most women , a maximum of twenty - five years is devoted to childraising , leaving some thirty years free to perform other social functions . Statistics bear this out : the life - work span of the average American male is ...
Page 188
... lives as falling into a number of distinct phases , with shifting em- phases . Childhood and education occupy the first two decades , motherhood and child nurture the next , some sort of training and part - time or full - time work fill ...
... lives as falling into a number of distinct phases , with shifting em- phases . Childhood and education occupy the first two decades , motherhood and child nurture the next , some sort of training and part - time or full - time work fill ...
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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 |