The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 12
... poor some writing , enough reading to deci- pher the Bible , and a few figures were all the education considered necessary . A girl's education was usually limited to the simplest skills , even in Massachusetts where , as early as 1647 ...
... poor some writing , enough reading to deci- pher the Bible , and a few figures were all the education considered necessary . A girl's education was usually limited to the simplest skills , even in Massachusetts where , as early as 1647 ...
Page 104
... Poor women in both the North and South protested , petitioned , and , when all else failed , rioted . Bread riots , usually made up of the half - starved , ragged moth- ers and wives of volunteers , swept the cities as the war deep ...
... Poor women in both the North and South protested , petitioned , and , when all else failed , rioted . Bread riots , usually made up of the half - starved , ragged moth- ers and wives of volunteers , swept the cities as the war deep ...
Page 128
... poor neighborhoods . They badgered and labored until slum children could be sent on summer vacations to camps in the country . They also became concerned with the more deep - seated causes of poverty and attacked the sweatshop system ...
... poor neighborhoods . They badgered and labored until slum children could be sent on summer vacations to camps in the country . They also became concerned with the more deep - seated causes of poverty and attacked the sweatshop system ...
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Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Woman in American History Specialized studies in American history series |
| Author | Gerda Lerner |
| Publisher | Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 0201042274, 9780201042276 |
| Length | 207 pages |
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