The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 29
... began to be widely 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 ...
... began to be widely 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 ...
Page 33
... began to influence the literary scene . The female writers of popular literature shared the back- ground and tastes of their audiences . The first novel written in the United States was authored by Sarah Wentworth in 1781 . Hannah ...
... began to influence the literary scene . The female writers of popular literature shared the back- ground and tastes of their audiences . The first novel written in the United States was authored by Sarah Wentworth in 1781 . Hannah ...
Page 168
... began . Within four months , 219 women from 26 states were arrested ; 97 were sen- tenced to prison terms in the notorious Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia . Alice Paul , Lucy Burns , and several socially promi- nent women were mistreated ...
... began . Within four months , 219 women from 26 states were arrested ; 97 were sen- tenced to prison terms in the notorious Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia . Alice Paul , Lucy Burns , and several socially promi- nent women were mistreated ...
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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 |