| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxvi, 509 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The American heritage series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-499) and index. |
| Contents |
Training the girl to patience / Louisa May Alcott -- Childhood in slavery / Martha Harrison / Anonymous -- You owe more to your mother and the younger children than you do to any other plans / Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D. -- A mother advises her daughter / Martha Coffin Wright -- In fear of hell and damnation / Mary A. Livermore -- From Frank to Frances / Frances E. Willard -- The childhood of an immigrant working girl / Rose Schneiderman -- Engagements / Eliza Lucas Pinckney / Ellen Wright Garrison / Rose Cohen / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- An emancipated marriage / Marius and Emily Robinson -- In woman's sphere and out of it / Jane Swisshelm -- Runaway wives / Elizabeth Perkins / Mary Dodd -- Motherhood in the Minnesota territory / Anonymous -- A difficult childbirth / Fanny Wright -- Why don't I wean him? / Martha Coffin Wright -- A feminist debates marital restraint with her brothers and sisters / Lucy Stone with Francis, William Bowman, and Luther and Sarah Stone -- Marriage / Sarah M. Grimke -- The story of Sadie Sachs / Margaret Sanger -- On spinsterhood / Catharine M. Sedgwick -- The practicing housewife / Martha Coffin Wright -- Woman's work and man's supremacy / Jane Swisshelm -- Female trials / Cleo Dora -- Words of comfort for a discouraged housekeeper / Catharine Esther Beecher -- Employments in 1864 / Lydia Maria Child -- The life of an Illinois farmer's wife / Anonymous -- A modern housewife's lament / Herma L. Snider -- The working mother keeps house / Anonymous -- The housewife and the eight-hour day / Theresa Malkiel -- In woman's defense / Mary Inman -- A modest proposal for freeing women from housework / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The death of an aged Quaker woman / Eliza Coffin Yarnall -- The death of a younger sister / Mary A. Livermore -- The death of a mother after childbirth / Anonymous -- Memorial to a female preacher / Salome Lincoln -- The death of a husband at war / Mary A. Dennison -- Nursing an aging mother / Marian Louise Moore -- Duty commands you / Mary Holywell Everett, M.D. -- From family nursing to volunteer nursing in the Civil War / Jane Swisshelm -- Organized charity / Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children / Phillis Wheatley Home Association of Detroit / St. Louis Colored Orphan Home -- Education for young ladies / The Youn-Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia -- A plan for improving female education / Emma Hart Willard -- In a daughter they have a human being; in a son the same / Frances Wright -- The school marm / Anna Howard Shaw / Susan B. Anthony -- Teaching the freedmen / Mary S. Battey / Lucy Chase / Sarah A. Allen -- The cotton gin school house / Emma J. Wilson -- An Illinois farm girl debates woman's education / Rena Rietveld Verduin -- Academic women attack institutional discrimination / Bernice Sandler -- Comestic help on the farm / Sarah Christie Stevens -- Friendly counsel for domestics / Catharine Esther Beecher -- Anything but housework -- Our feudal housewives -- Collective bargaining for household technicians -- Limited choices / Caroline Dall -- An early turn-out / salome Lincoln -- New York tailoresses oraganize / Lavinia Waight / New York Sun / Ladies' Industrial Association / Shirt Sewers' Cooperative Union -- Protective legislation / Rheta Childe Dorr -- How to live on forty-six cents a day / Anonymous Cotton Mill Worker -- Report of the general investigator, Knights of Labor / Leonora M. Barry -- A cap maker's story / Rose Schneiderman -- How to organize women workers / Ida M. Van Etten / National Women's Trade Union League -- A union protects its women members / United Auto Workers -- Women vote in New Jersey -- Petitioning / Address to Females in the State of Ohio / Fathers and Rulers Petition / Remarks of Rep. Benjamin Tappan / Petition for the Thirteenth Amendment, Women's Loyal National League / Susan B. Anthony -- Why women should not meddle with politics / Lydia Drake -- The Salem, Ohio, woman's rights convention / Memorial to the Constitutional Convention / Resolutions -- Women are enfranchised by the Constitution / Virginia Minor / Victoria Claflin Woodhull -- A black woman appeals to white women for justice for her race / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Voting for school boards in Ohio / Caroline McCullough Everhard -- A Minnesota farm woman in politics / Sarah Christie Stevens -- A woman in Socialist politics / Lena Morrow Lewis -- Rights, not roses - the debate around the ERA / New York Women's Trade Union League / International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union / United Auto Workers -- A female soldier in the American Revolution / Deborah Sampson -- The female physician: and unlicensed practitioner / Harriot K. Hunt -- The female physician: pioneer work / Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. -- The female physician: an attack and a reply / Ann Preston, M.D. -- The best protector any woman can have is courage / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- A new self-consciousness / Belva Lockwood -- The woman revolutionary / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Unwanted motherhood / Anonymous / National Florence Crittenton Mission / National Association for Repeal of Birth Control Laws -- Protection from rape and sexual exploitation / A Common Case of Rape / An Act of Terror / Rape Crisis Center Collective / SpeakingOut on Prostitution -- Freedom of sexual preference / Radicalesbian Statement / Lesbianism and Feminism: Anne Koedt -- We didn't none of us eat there / Audie Lee Walters -- Consciousness raising / Ronnie Lichtman -- U.S. National Women's Agenda / National women's organizations -- The trial of a heretic / Anne Hutchinson -- Preparation to the death for a Quaker witness / Mary Dyer -- A frontier woman discovers her own kind of feminism / Marian Louise Moore -- She is the arbiter of her own destiny / Sarah Moore Grimke -- While the water is stirring I will step into the pool / Sojourner Truth -- The solution of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Turning / Lucille Clifton -- The six canons / Muriel Rukeyser |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- Sources.
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Women -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Lerner, Gerda, 1920-2013.
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| ISBN |
0672515555 |
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9780672515552 |
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0672612488 paperback |
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9780672612480 paperback |
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