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Southern ladies and suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and women's rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair /

Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and interactions played out as a dram...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pfeffer, Miki (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What the ladies were saying
  • The principals
  • An immense responsibility
  • The locals
  • A city for women
  • The chiefdom
  • Thimbles and a teapot
  • Great expectations
  • Work, the new gospel of womanhood
  • February festivities
  • Opening at last
  • When powerful women came to town
  • Exhibits great and small
  • April showers of reproach
  • May distractions
  • Final battles
  • Endings.