The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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... rose to po- sitions of eminence , but all colonial women enjoyed high status and respect , despite existing discrimination in laws , customs , and educational opportunities . CHAPTER ONE The Colonial Woman Women in colonial America enjoyed ...
... rose to po- sitions of eminence , but all colonial women enjoyed high status and respect , despite existing discrimination in laws , customs , and educational opportunities . CHAPTER ONE The Colonial Woman Women in colonial America enjoyed ...
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... women . Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property , allowing her a share and her personal clothing in case of a legal separation . Colonial courts also gave women the right to make - contracts , transact ...
... women . Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property , allowing her a share and her personal clothing in case of a legal separation . Colonial courts also gave women the right to make - contracts , transact ...
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... colonies very attrac- tive for poor women , many of whom came to America to im- prove their position . Household Industry . The vast majority of colonial women worked in their homes , in activities absolutely essential to the survival ...
... colonies very attrac- tive for poor women , many of whom came to America to im- prove their position . Household Industry . The vast majority of colonial women worked in their homes , in activities absolutely essential to the survival ...
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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 |