| Description |
xi, 567 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Mary Rowlandson's captivity. The seventeenth century : a frontier society -- Eliza Pinckney and Republican motherhood. The eighteenth century : the eve of modernity -- Sarah Hale and the Ladies Magazine. Promoting woman's sphere, 1800-1860 -- Frances Wright at Nashoba. Benevolence and reform, 1800-1860 -- The Shirtwaist strike of 1909. Women at work, 1860-1920 -- The founding of Hull House. The rise of the new women, 1860-1920 -- The crisis of the NWSA. Feminism and suffrage, 1860-1920 -- Direct action : Margaret Sanger's crusade. Cross-currents : the 1920s -- Humanizing the New Deal, 1933. Emergencies : the 1930s and 1940s -- Turning points : the early sixties. High expectations : since the 1950s |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 549-550 |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
84000746 |
| ISBN |
039432319X (paperback) |
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0394535154 |
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