The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 101
... Federal Government . The " government girls " were a controversial wartime innovation , but on both sides of the bat- tle lines necessity triumphed over custom . Female government workers , like all female workers , had two things to ...
... Federal Government . The " government girls " were a controversial wartime innovation , but on both sides of the bat- tle lines necessity triumphed over custom . Female government workers , like all female workers , had two things to ...
Page 169
... federal amend- ment must go on simultaneously with support of the war effort . During this entire period the Woman's Party tactic was to op- pose the war , to burn President Wilson's speeches , to hang him in effigy , to interrupt war ...
... federal amend- ment must go on simultaneously with support of the war effort . During this entire period the Woman's Party tactic was to op- pose the war , to burn President Wilson's speeches , to hang him in effigy , to interrupt war ...
Page 173
... federal appointive office the lone female Cabinet member only served to prove the general rule that top governmental and business posts were reserved for men . The first female Cabinet member was Frances Perkins , who as Franklin D ...
... federal appointive office the lone female Cabinet member only served to prove the general rule that top governmental and business posts were reserved for men . The first female Cabinet member was Frances Perkins , who as Franklin D ...
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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 |