The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 12
... forced to live out her life as unpaid household help in the home of one of her male relatives . She enjoyed none of the respect and authority of a married or widowed woman . The American colonies were con- sidered " a paradise for women ...
... forced to live out her life as unpaid household help in the home of one of her male relatives . She enjoyed none of the respect and authority of a married or widowed woman . The American colonies were con- sidered " a paradise for women ...
Page 52
... forced to work at pitiful piece- work rates in the home . Their ability to survive at all frequently depended on their making use of the unpaid subsidiary labor of their children . " It requires great expertness and unceasing industry ...
... forced to work at pitiful piece- work rates in the home . Their ability to survive at all frequently depended on their making use of the unpaid subsidiary labor of their children . " It requires great expertness and unceasing industry ...
Page 157
... forced to end unwanted pregnancies by illegal operations that endangered their own lives . " We want children to be conceived in love , born of parents ' conscious desire and born into the world with healthy and sound bodies and sound ...
... forced to end unwanted pregnancies by illegal operations that endangered their own lives . " We want children to be conceived in love , born of parents ' conscious desire and born into the world with healthy and sound bodies and sound ...
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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 |