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Author Cobbs, Elizabeth, author.

Title Fearless women : feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé / Elizabeth Cobbs.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  305.4209 COBBS    Check Shelf
Description viii, 448 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Right to Learn: 1776 to 1800 : Abigail Adams and Abigail Bailey -- The Right to Speak: 1800 to 1865 : Angelina Grimké and Harriet Jacobs -- The Right to Lobby: 1865-1900 : Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Packard -- The Right to Vote: 1900-1920 : Mary Church Terrell and Rosa Cavalleri -- The Right to Earn: 1920-1960 : Frances Perkins and Ann Marie Riebe -- The Right to Equal Treatment: 1960-1975 : Martha Cotera and Yvonne Swan -- The Right to Compete: 1975-2000 : Phyllis Schlafly and Muriel Siebert -- The Right to Physical Safety: 2000 to the Present : Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and the Women of #MeToo.
Summary "Cobbs traces the long history of American feminism, dating back to the Revolution, when the founding principle of equality became a battering ram against hierarchy. She tells this story through the public and private lives of 16 women who pushed the boundaries of their times and insisted on their right to control their bodies and their lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Women's rights -- United States -- History.
Feminism -- United States -- History.
Feminists -- United States -- History.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Equality -- United States -- History.
Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
Feminists. (OCoLC)fst00922831
Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780674258488 (hardcover)
0674258487 (hardcover)
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