The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 23
... soon as their exploitative methods of agriculture had exhausted the soil . This kind of life was hard on women , who tended to exert what influence they could toward the formation of permanent com- munities . Because of scouting and ...
... soon as their exploitative methods of agriculture had exhausted the soil . This kind of life was hard on women , who tended to exert what influence they could toward the formation of permanent com- munities . Because of scouting and ...
Page 34
... soon per- suaded 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 " maintain that we ...
... soon per- suaded 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 " maintain that we ...
Page 96
... soon became evident that a national relief agency was neces- sary . In June , 1861 , President Lincoln established the United States Sanitary Commission , headed by Henry Bellows . The Commission united the Woman's Central Association ...
... soon became evident that a national relief agency was neces- sary . In June , 1861 , President Lincoln established the United States Sanitary Commission , headed by Henry Bellows . The Commission united the Woman's Central Association ...
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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 |