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Fighting Chance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Fighting Chance

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? In a lively narrative of insider politics, betrayal, deception, and personal conflict, Fighting Chance offers fresh answers to this question and reveals that racism was not the only cause, but that the outcome also depended heavily on money and political maneuver.

Serving Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Serving Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985-01-01
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  • Publisher: Wesleyan

Examines the daily lives and social conditions of household servants and discusses their relationships with their female employers.

Women in American Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 606

Women in American Theatre

First full-scale revision since 1987.

Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920

Winner of the 2019 Gita Chaudhuri Prize Winner of the 2019 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities--in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. By investigating civic responsibility, Egge reorients scholarship on woman suffrage and brings attention to the Midwest, a region overlooked by most historians of the movement. In doing so, she sheds new light onto the ways suffragists rejuvenated the cause in the twentieth century.

Funding Feminism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Funding Feminism

Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst; Grace Dodge, granddaughter of Wall Street "Merchant Prince" William Earle Dodge; and Ava Belmont, who married into the Vanderbilt family fortune. Motivated by their own experiences with sexism, and focusing on women's need for economic independence, these benefactors sought to expand women's access to higher education, promote suffrage, and champion reprod...

Women in the American Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Women in the American Theatre

Through a series of biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Dudden provides a discussion of the conflicted messages conveyed by the early theatre about what it meant to be a woman. It both showed women as sex objects and provided opportunities for careers.

Encyclopedia of Union College History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 872

Encyclopedia of Union College History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Covers Union College's history from its founding in 1795 up to 1990.

A Companion to American Women's History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

A Companion to American Women's History

This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

Empire de L'éphémère
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Empire de L'éphémère

This text draws on the history of fashion to demonstrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common good. It argues that mass produced fashion offers many choices, which in turn enable consumers to become complex individuals within a consolidated society.

From Out of the Shadows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

From Out of the Shadows

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-11-05
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

An anniversary edition of the first full study of Mexican American women in the twentieth century, with new preface