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Pioneer settlers , hunters , and ranchers were generally eager to move westward to better land as soon as their exploitative methods of agriculture had exhausted the soil . This kind of life was hard on women , who tended to exert what ...
Pioneer settlers , hunters , and ranchers were generally eager to move westward to better land as soon as their exploitative methods of agriculture had exhausted the soil . This kind of life was hard on women , who tended to exert what ...
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Mrs. Bloomer , soon persuaded of the advantages of pantaloons gathered chastely at the ankles and topped by a belted smock which reached the knees , took up the cause . Daringly she rushed into print with the assertion that women ...
Mrs. Bloomer , soon persuaded of the advantages of pantaloons gathered chastely at the ankles and topped by a belted smock which reached the knees , took up the cause . Daringly she rushed into print with the assertion that women ...
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Her keen mind , astonishing erudition , and conversational skill soon gave her a place of leadership among Boston Transcendentalists ( members of a literary and philosophical movement stressing the insights derived from instincts and ...
Her keen mind , astonishing erudition , and conversational skill soon gave her a place of leadership among Boston Transcendentalists ( members of a literary and philosophical movement stressing the insights derived from instincts and ...
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Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |