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The Women Who Built Omaha : A Bold and Remarkable History /

"The Women Who Built Omaha explores the important contributions of women to Omaha while placing those contributions in the context of social history. Wirth describes the activities of local women in numerous fields from the 1850s to the modern women's movement in the 1970s, bringing to lif...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wirth, Eileen M., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women's lives in pioneer Omaha
  • Education
  • Founding Creighton University and Duchesne
  • Native American women
  • Votes for Omaha women
  • The "new woman" of the Gilded Age
  • Prostitution in wide open Omaha
  • Healthcare
  • Human services
  • Culture and the arts
  • From World War I to World War II
  • Business
  • Restaurants and bakeries
  • Sports
  • Post-war to the women's movement
  • Law
  • Government
  • Civil rights
  • After the women's movement.