The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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... 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 10.
... 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 10.
Page 102
... customs of generations . Under these circumstances southern women dis- played heroic stamina and ingenuity in feeding themselves , their children , and their slaves . " The woods , as well as being the great storehouse for all our ...
... customs of generations . Under these circumstances southern women dis- played heroic stamina and ingenuity in feeding themselves , their children , and their slaves . " The woods , as well as being the great storehouse for all our ...
Page 152
... customs were crippling women and adapting them only to life - long dependency on men . She sharply attacked the eco- nomic arrangements underlying conventional marriage and pointed out that the emancipated woman would make a better mate ...
... customs were crippling women and adapting them only to life - long dependency on men . She sharply attacked the eco- nomic arrangements underlying conventional marriage and pointed out that the emancipated woman would make a better mate ...
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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 |