The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 53
... improve the plight of these home workers by organizing them were unsuccessful . Domestic industry remained the most underpaid of all occupations . A further result of industrialization was an increasing divi- sion among women by class ...
... improve the plight of these home workers by organizing them were unsuccessful . Domestic industry remained the most underpaid of all occupations . A further result of industrialization was an increasing divi- sion among women by class ...
Page 118
... Improve- ments in gas lighting , municipal water supplies , and plumbing made housekeeping easier and more efficient ... Improved laundry and cooking facilities and the popularization of the sewing machine further lightened domestic ...
... Improve- ments in gas lighting , municipal water supplies , and plumbing made housekeeping easier and more efficient ... Improved laundry and cooking facilities and the popularization of the sewing machine further lightened domestic ...
Page 119
... improving social conditions in their own communities . For many , of course , club life performed merely a social func- tion . Others looked to it for self - improvement or saw it as a field in which they could make themselves useful ...
... improving social conditions in their own communities . For many , of course , club life performed merely a social func- tion . Others looked to it for self - improvement or saw it as a field in which they could make themselves useful ...
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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 |