Feminist frontiers : women who shaped the Midwest /

"Women's stories are noticeably absent from the master narrative of Populist and Progressive movements, where their struggle for civil rights was more evident in the Midwest than any other region in the country. This collection of eleven biographical essays highlights women leaders in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, Yvonne, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, ©2010.
©2010
Temas:
Women political activists > Middle West > Biography.
Women civil rights workers > Middle West > Biography.
Women social reformers > Middle West > Biography.
Feminists > Middle West > Biography.
Women > Middle West > Biography.
Women > Political activity > Middle West > History.
Sex role > Middle West > History.
Femmes activistes > Midwest (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Défenseuses des droits de l'homme > Midwest (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Réformatrices sociales > Midwest (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Féministes > Midwest (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Femmes > Midwest (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Femmes > Activité politique > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminists.
Politics and government.
Sex role.
Social conditions.
Women.
Women civil rights workers.
Women political activists.
Women > Political activity.
Women social reformers.
Middle West > Biography.
Middle West > Social conditions.
Middle West > Politics and government.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Conditions sociales.
Middle West.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frances Dana Gage : "turning the world upside down" / Jeffrey E. Smith
  • Mary Sibley : genteel reformer / Mary Ellen Rowe
  • Amanda Berry Smith : pioneer for African American child care / Marcia Chatelaine
  • Linda Warfel Slaughter : cultural education in North Dakota / Barbara Handy-Marchello
  • Marietta Bones : personality and politics in the South Dakota suffrage movement / Nancy Tystad Koupal
  • Carry Nation : the Kansas cyclone / Patricia Ashman
  • Alice French : Indiana war mothers : from World War I "kitchen soldiers" to postwar immigrant reformers / Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis
  • Efrieda von Rohr Sauer : a life reinterpreted / Carol Piper Heming
  • Esther Twente : community builder / Maureen Wilt
  • Genora Dollinger : a revolutionary from Michigan / Carlton Jackson
  • Harriett Friedman Woods : from Midwest politics to national power / Yvonne J. Johnson and Shari Bax.

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