Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 /

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The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition - some well known, some forgotten over generations - who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Sidonie, Watson, Julia, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2006.
Colección:Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Temas:
1800-1999
Women > United States > Biography.
Women > United States > History > 19th century > Sources.
Women > United States > History > 20th century > Sources.
Women's studies > United States > Biographical methods.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Femmes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
Femmes > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle > Sources.
Études sur les femmes > États-Unis > Histoires de vie.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Autobiography > Women authors
Women
Women's studies > Biographical methods
Frau
United States
USA
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Sources
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Living in public / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
  • An authentic statement of the case and conduct of Rose Butler, who was tried, convicted, and executed for the crime of arson (1819) / Rose Butler
  • A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver) (1824) / Mary Jemison
  • The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee
  • Selections from Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) / Fanny Kemble
  • Transcription of speech given at the Akron Women's Rights Convention, from the Anti-slavery Bugle (June 21, 1851) / Sojourner Truth
  • Selections from "Youth," from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Margaret Fuller
  • Testimony, given in Canada (1855) / Harriet Tubman
  • A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (1869) / Adele M. Jewel
  • Selections from her journals (1874/78) / M. Carey Thomas
  • The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca
  • An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) / Eulalia Pérez
  • Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) / Lucy Larcom
  • "Looking back on girlhood" (1892) / Sarah Orne Jewett
  • The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) / Fannie Barrier Williams
  • Sketches from The Atlantic monthly / Zitkala-Ša
  • Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin
  • Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) / Mary MacLane
  • The promised land, from The promised land (1912) / Mary Antin
  • Lives in The Independent and the question of race / Anonymous
  • How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) / Harriet Quimby
  • Autobiographical essays / Sui Sin Far
  • Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919) / "Madeleine."

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