| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 296 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Perspectives in American social history |
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Gale eBooks
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Perspectives in American social history.
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| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Native American women / Jeffrey M. Schulze -- Women of the colonial period / Amy Meschke Porter -- Daughters of liberty : women and the American Revolution / Pia Katarina Jakobsson -- Women reformers and radicals in Antebellum America / Julie Holcomb -- School girls and college women : female education in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Andrea Hamilton -- Suffragists / Jessica O'Brien Pursell -- Clubwomen, reformers, workers, and feminists of the gilded age and progressive era / Alison M. Parker -- Modern women in the 1920s / Susan Goodier -- Women facing the emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II : women's rights in the 1930s and 1940s / Gillian Nichols-Smith -- Homemakers and activists in the 1950s / Kathleen A. Laughlin -- Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s / Natasha Zaretsky -- Third wave feminists : the ongoing movement for women's rights / Janice Okoomian. |
| Summary |
Explores the history of the struggle for women's rights in the United States from the colonial period to the present. |
| Subject |
Women's rights -- United States -- History.
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Feminism -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
DeLuzio, Crista, 1966- editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781598841152 (DLC) 2009031359 |
| ISBN |
9781598841152 (electronic book) |
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9781598841145 (alk. paper) |
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