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Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York
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-5%On a summer day in 1846-two years before the seneca falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the united states-six women in rural upstate new york sat down to write a petition to their state's constitutional convention,.
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Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
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-5%During the westward expansion of america, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and native american women.
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Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920
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-5%Made doubly marginal by their gender and by their religion, american nuns have rarely been granted serious scholarly attention.
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The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
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-5%From the gibson girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the new woman, carolyn kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century american cult.
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Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism
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-5%In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century america, j.
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Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South
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-5%Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman.
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Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era
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-5%In 1965, fed up with president lyndon johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the vietnam war, a group of female american peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with vietnamese women to discuss.
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Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
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-5%Margaret meuse clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "old elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the south to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; harriet livermor.
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Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
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-5%In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, victoria bynum investigates "unruly" women in central north carolina before and during the civil war.
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The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I
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-5%In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the american "new woman," lynn dumenil examines world war i's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war.
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Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967
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-5%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 philan.
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The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
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-5%The patriarchal structure of the nation of islam (noi) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles.
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This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War-Era Washington, D.C.
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-5%In the volatility of the civil war, the federal government opened its payrolls to women.
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Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire-building
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-5%Donaldson presents new paradigms of interpretation that help to bring the often oppositional stances of first versus third world and traditional versus postmodern feminism into a more constructive relationship.
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The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900
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-5%The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement.
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U.S. History As Women's History: New Feminist Essays
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-5%This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history.
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Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
$23.79
-5%Over twenty years after its initial publication, annelise orleck's common sense and a little fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history.
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Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism
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-5%In the winter of 1972, the first issue of ms.
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Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays By Linda K. Kerber
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-5%As a leading historian of women, linda k.
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Maternal Bodies
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In the second half of the eighteenth century, motherhood came to be viewed as women's most important social role, and the figure of the good mother was celebrated as a moral force in american society.
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The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere
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-5%In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, catherine esther beecher, harriet beecher stowe, and isabella beecher hooker shared a commitment to women's power.
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Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
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-5%We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the united states: women met at seneca falls, marched in washington, d.
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Speaking of Feminism: Today's Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women's Movement
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-5%From the women's marches to the metoo movement, it is clear that feminist activism is still alive and well in the twenty-first century.
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Gender and Jim Crow, Second Edition: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
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-5%This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the jim crow era.
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Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945-1980
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-5%While rosie the riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning world war ii veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense.
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A Measure of the Earth
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-20%A measure of the earth provides an unparalleled window into an overlooked corner of recent american history: the traditional basketry revival of the past fifty years.
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