The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 72
... poor Widows and small Children , " formed in New York City by fifteen ladies in 1797 , supported 202 widows and 500 children by 1816 , collecting and dispensing over $ 3500 a year for charity . These ladies organized social work in a ...
... poor Widows and small Children , " formed in New York City by fifteen ladies in 1797 , supported 202 widows and 500 children by 1816 , collecting and dispensing over $ 3500 a year for charity . These ladies organized social work in a ...
Page 128
... poor neighborhoods . They badgered and labored until slum children could be sent on summer vacations to camps in the country . They also became concerned with the more deep - seated causes of poverty and attacked the sweatshop system ...
... poor neighborhoods . They badgered and labored until slum children could be sent on summer vacations to camps in the country . They also became concerned with the more deep - seated causes of poverty and attacked the sweatshop system ...
Page 157
... poor in our own cities , it seems almost incredible that only fifty years ago a woman had to brave jail , exile , ostracism , and the whole- sale disapproval of her contemporaries for advocating this re- form . Margaret Sanger was a ...
... poor in our own cities , it seems almost incredible that only fifty years ago a woman had to brave jail , exile , ostracism , and the whole- sale disapproval of her contemporaries for advocating this re- form . Margaret Sanger was a ...
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References to this book
Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |