The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 14
... accepted instrument by which wealthy women could retain property rights , the majority of women had no such protection . Women in America , as well as in Britain , suffered under severe legal disabilities . The husband was the sole ...
... accepted instrument by which wealthy women could retain property rights , the majority of women had no such protection . Women in America , as well as in Britain , suffered under severe legal disabilities . The husband was the sole ...
Page 29
... accepted . At the same time , due to the licensing of many professions , women were excluded from fields and businesses in which they had formerly been active . This narrowing of woman's " proper sphere " had an adverse impact on middle ...
... accepted . At the same time , due to the licensing of many professions , women were excluded from fields and businesses in which they had formerly been active . This narrowing of woman's " proper sphere " had an adverse impact on middle ...
Page 133
... accepted for membership both in mixed units or " assemblies " and in sex - segregated locals . In 1886 , when the union reached its peak strength , it had chartered 113 women's assemblies . A few female leaders attained local and even ...
... accepted for membership both in mixed units or " assemblies " and in sex - segregated locals . In 1886 , when the union reached its peak strength , it had chartered 113 women's assemblies . A few female leaders attained local and even ...
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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 |