| Edition |
First Mariner Books edition. |
| Description |
xii, 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A Mariner Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-409) and index. |
| Awards |
Lambda Literary Award, 1999 |
| Contents |
I. How American women got enfranchised. The loves and living arrangements of nineteenth-century suffrage leaders -- Bringing the suffrage movement into the twentieth century : Anna Howard Shaw -- Victory : Carrie Chapman Catt -- Two steps forward-- . II. How America got a social conscience. Mother-hearts/lesbian-hearts -- Social housekeeping : the inspiration of Jane Addams -- Social housekeeping becomes a profession : Frances Kellor -- Poisoning the source. III. How American women got educated. "Mental hermaphrodites" : pioneers in women's education -- Making women's higher education even higher : M. Carey Thomas -- The struggle to maintain women's leadership : Mary Emma Woolley -- The triumph of Angelina : education in femininity. IV. How American women got into the professions. "When more women enter professions" : lesbian pioneering in the learned professions -- Making places for women in medicine : Emily Blackwell -- Carrying on : Martha May Eliot, M.D. |
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The rush to bake the pies and have the babies. |
| Subject |
Lesbian feminism -- United States -- History.
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Lesbians -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0618056971 paperback $15.00 |
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9780618056972 paperback |
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