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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (618 entries) : 532 images ; digital files. |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-552). |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Photo sources -- Timeline -- Introduction -- The arrival of women in America: The arrival of women in America; Women and the first European settlements; Colonial women in America; The arrival of women in New England; Courtship, marriage, and motherhood in the colonies -- The struggle for equality: the first women's rights movement: The abolitionist movement and equal rights for women; The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848; Seneca Falls to the Suffrage Movement; The final battle for suffrage; The Suffrage Parade of 1913; American Women win the right to vote; Biographies -- Women at work: Women at work; The mill girls; The first women's labor movement; Early twentieth-century women's labor movement; Garment workers and the Great Uprising; The Triangle Shirtwaist fire; The protocol of peace; Women at work in wartime; "We can do it!": World War II; The President's Commission on the Status of Women; Biographies -- The second women's rights movement: The second women's rights movement; Literature and liberation; National Organization for Women; The Miss America protests; The Equal Rights Amendment; The legalization of abortion; Postfeminism; Biographies -- Literature: Literature; Biographies -- Art and applied arts: Art and applied arts; Biographies -- Media and the performing arts: Music, dance and theater; Film; Television; Biographies -- Sports: Sports; Biographies -- Science, medicine, and technology: Science, medicine, and technology; Biographies -- |
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Politics, government, and the law: Politics, government, and the law; Biographies -- Religion: Religion; Biographies -- Activists for social change: Activists for social change; The temperance movement; The settlement movement; The Woman's Peace Party; The birth control movement; Biographies -- Education: Education; Biographies -- Business leaders and entrepreneurs: Business leaders and entrepreneurs; Biographies -- The military: The military; Biographies -- Explorers: Explorers; Biographies -- Further reading -- About the author -- Also from Visible Ink Press. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
This essential book illustrates the important events and figures surrounding the suffrage movement; literature, art, and music; business leaders and breakthroughs; political history and office holders; advances in science and medicine; and other vital topics. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 157859636X 9781578596362 (DLC) 2019047814 xxxiii, 573 pages : illustrations |
| ISBN |
9781787857056 electronic version |
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9781578596362 paperback |
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157859636X paperback |
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1578597226 |
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9781578597222 |
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