| Description |
xi, 305 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Duke Press policy studies |
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Duke Press policy studies.
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| Contents |
Glimpses of Muslim urban women in classical Islam / Boydena R.Wilson -- Piety and kin : the limits of antebellum Southern women's reform / Jean E. Friedman -- Planter's wife revisited : women, equity law, and the Chancery Court in seventeenth-century Maryland / Gwen Victor Gampel -- Aristocratic widows in fifteenth-century England / Joel T. Rosenthal -- Was she a good mother? Some thoughts on a new issue for feminist biography / Joyce Antler -- Linnaeus's daughters : women and British botany / Ann B. Shteir -- Holy woman and the urban community in sixteenth-century Avila / Jodi Bilinkoff -- Right-wing female activists in Buenos Aires, 1900-1932 / Sandra F. McGee -- London Biblewomen and Nurses Mission, 1857-1880 : class relations, women's relations / Francoise Ducrocq -- Ethnological mirror : American evangelical women and their heathen sisters, 1870-1910 / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- "My spirit eye" : some functions of spiritual and visionary experience in the lives of five Black women preachers, 1810-1880 / Jean M. Humez -- City mothers, city daughters, and the dance hall girls : the limits of female political power in San Francisco, 1913 -- Limitations of sisterhood : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and division in the American suffrage movement, 1875-1902 / Ellen DuBois -- Feminism, professionalism, and germs : a study of the thought of Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell / Regina Markell Morantz -- Jewish involvement in the New York City woman suffrage movement / Elinor Lerner -- "If eight hours seem few to you..." : women workers' strikes in Italian rice fields, 1901-1906 / Elda Gentili Zappi -- Responses to the political activism of women of the people in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1793 / Harriet B. Applewhite & Darline Gay Levy -- Effects of the Chinese revolution on women and their families / Marian Darce Frenier |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Congresses.
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Social structure -- Congresses.
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Sex role.
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Women -- History -- Congresses.
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Social structure.
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Women -- History.
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Women -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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Women -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Harris, Barbara J. (Barbara Jean), 1942-
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McNamara, Jo Ann, 1931-
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| LC no. |
84001599 |
| ISBN |
0822305585 |
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0822306034 |
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