The Female experience an American documentary /
| Other Authors: | Lerner, Gerda, 1920-2013. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Indianapolis :
Bobbs-Merrill Educational Pub.,
[1977]
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| Physical Description: |
xxxvi, 509 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: |
American heritage series (New York, N.Y.)
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| Subjects: |
Table of 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.