The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 14
... hand , she could not be sued and her husband was fully liable for her debts . American courts were more lenient toward women . Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property , allowing her a share and her ...
... hand , she could not be sued and her husband was fully liable for her debts . American courts were more lenient toward women . Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property , allowing her a share and her ...
Page 55
... hand . One traveler described a group of women and children in the Great Plains in 1852 : An open , bleak prairie ... hands and calling upon her dead parent ; a boy of twelve sitting upon the waggon tongue , sobbing aloud ; a strange man ...
... hand . One traveler described a group of women and children in the Great Plains in 1852 : An open , bleak prairie ... hands and calling upon her dead parent ; a boy of twelve sitting upon the waggon tongue , sobbing aloud ; a strange man ...
Page 140
... hand that rocks the cradle " might , given suffrage , also rock the boat . This same period also saw the rise and spread of anti - suffrage movements with predominantly female membership . Their main strength was in New England , but ...
... hand that rocks the cradle " might , given suffrage , also rock the boat . This same period also saw the rise and spread of anti - suffrage movements with predominantly female membership . Their main strength was in New England , but ...
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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 |