The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 13
... wives . One frequently finds the husband living to a ripe old age , surviving several wives and many of his children . Law . Even in marriage American women were better off than their contemporaries in Europe . Under British law a mar ...
... wives . One frequently finds the husband living to a ripe old age , surviving several wives and many of his children . Law . Even in marriage American women were better off than their contemporaries in Europe . Under British law a mar ...
Page 58
... wives of the small class of plantation overseers , profes- sional men , and middle - class townsmen attempted in every way to ape the standards of behavior of the plantation ladies . There was a much sharper division between the ...
... wives of the small class of plantation overseers , profes- sional men , and middle - class townsmen attempted in every way to ape the standards of behavior of the plantation ladies . There was a much sharper division between the ...
Page 174
... wives of Presidents , Senators , and candidates for office have traditionally performed an important public function on behalf of their husbands , as have the wives of important leaders in the business world . Yet , it must be stressed ...
... wives of Presidents , Senators , and candidates for office have traditionally performed an important public function on behalf of their husbands , as have the wives of important leaders in the business world . Yet , it must be stressed ...
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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 |