The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 15
... wages . Children inden- tured into service received their freedom when they reached their teens . If a servant was found guilty of any misdeed , he was usually punished by a lengthening of his term of service . In this regard women were ...
... wages . Children inden- tured into service received their freedom when they reached their teens . If a servant was found guilty of any misdeed , he was usually punished by a lengthening of his term of service . In this regard women were ...
Page 44
... wages . Generally , thirty to fifty percent of the wages paid to male teachers seemed appropriate for females . When Susan B. Anthony worked as a schoolteacher , her wages were two dollars a week and board , little more than she had ...
... wages . Generally , thirty to fifty percent of the wages paid to male teachers seemed appropriate for females . When Susan B. Anthony worked as a schoolteacher , her wages were two dollars a week and board , little more than she had ...
Page 94
... wages . Here family life was reduced to a desperate struggle for sur- vival , as the home became a sweatshop in which children and their elders did piecework . Gradually , working girls organized in their own behalf , joined men in the ...
... wages . Here family life was reduced to a desperate struggle for sur- vival , as the home became a sweatshop in which children and their elders did piecework . Gradually , working girls organized in their own behalf , joined men in the ...
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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 |