The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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... status . We shall describe women's status at different points in our history , examine how and why it has changed and analyze the significance of these changes . We shall discuss the contributions of outstanding women , but shall be ...
... status . We shall describe women's status at different points in our history , examine how and why it has changed and analyze the significance of these changes . We shall discuss the contributions of outstanding women , but shall be ...
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... status , and low pay . Generally , nursing was regarded simply as an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife . Society no longer approved of women working outside the home . To do so entailed a distinct loss of status ...
... status , and low pay . Generally , nursing was regarded simply as an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife . Society no longer approved of women working outside the home . To do so entailed a distinct loss of status ...
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... status of women . The woman's rights movement gained momentum as increasing numbers of reformers of all kinds saw in female suffrage the cure - all for the evils of society . For a short while , this movement united women of all social ...
... status of women . The woman's rights movement gained momentum as increasing numbers of reformers of all kinds saw in female suffrage the cure - all for the evils of society . For a short while , this movement united women of all social ...
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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 |