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Author Bacon, Margaret Hope.

Title Mothers of feminism : the story of Quaker women in America / Margaret Hope Bacon.

Publication Info. San Francisco : Harper & Row, [1986]
©1986

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  289.6 BAC    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  289.6    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [235]-250.
Note Includes index.
Contents Introduction : the first feminists -- Quaker women in Puritan England -- The traveling women ministers, 1650-1800 -- Development of the women's business meetings, 1670-1800 -- Quaker women in colonial America -- Reformation and revolution -- The nineteenth century : expansion and change -- Pioneers in antislavery and women's rights -- Quaker women and the early suffrage movement -- One reform and another -- Pioneering the professions -- Meetings and ministry : the nineteenth century -- The Quaker influence in the final struggle for suffrage -- Building a peace movement -- Quaker women today.
Subject Quaker women -- United States -- History.
Indexed Term United States Quaker women reformers, ca 1650-1985
ISBN 0062500430
9780062500434
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