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From the field to the legislature : a history of women in the Virgin Islands /
Annotation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Contributions in women's studies ;
no. 187. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Slavery
- Birth of a Colony
- Constructing Versions of Womanhood: Plantation Society, 1700-1834
- Finding Freedom and Resisting Definition
- Women of Respect: Exerting Influence and Exercising Power
- Ch. 2. Amelioration
- Abolitionists and Patriarchy
- Shaping the New Woman
- Ch. 3. Post-Abolition Virgin Islands Society
- Emancipation and Its Immediate Aftermath
- Post-Abolition Government
- Missionaries in Post-Abolition Virgin Islands
- Ch. 4. New Challenges
- Women in Post-Abolition Society and Economy
- Education and Women
- Ch. 5. Constructing Self
- Twentieth-Century Government
- Women in the Society and in the Family
- Ch. 6. Public Lives
- Women and Welfare
- Women in the Economy
- Women in Education: Leading the Way
- Women in Health
- Ch. 7. The Boom Years, 1970-1995
- Progress and Change
- Women in the Economy: Gaining Ground
- Women and the Family
- Women and Social Policy
- Ch. 8. Political Women
- Political Gains since 1970
- Factors Affecting Women's Political Participation.