The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 33
... reform journals edited and staffed entirely by women . Some were devoted to the causes of temperance and antislavery , oth- ers to health and hygiene . Dress Reform . Amelia Bloomer , deputy postmistress of Seneca Falls , New York , was ...
... reform journals edited and staffed entirely by women . Some were devoted to the causes of temperance and antislavery , oth- ers to health and hygiene . Dress Reform . Amelia Bloomer , deputy postmistress of Seneca Falls , New York , was ...
Page 71
... reform organizations remained in the hands of men , most of them ministers . Social Welfare Quaker women pioneered in organizing orphan asylums , free schools for the poor or for black children , and prison aid socie- ties . Other ...
... reform organizations remained in the hands of men , most of them ministers . Social Welfare Quaker women pioneered in organizing orphan asylums , free schools for the poor or for black children , and prison aid socie- ties . Other ...
Page 75
... reforms were a monument to her spirit . Her accomplishment is unequalled in the history of reform . Most women had neither the strength nor the fanatic devo- tion of Dorothea Dix ; they needed to work with others to achieve their goals ...
... reforms were a monument to her spirit . Her accomplishment is unequalled in the history of reform . Most women had neither the strength nor the fanatic devo- tion of Dorothea Dix ; they needed to work with others to achieve their goals ...
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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 |