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American women : their lives in their words : a documentary history
Excerpts from women's diaries, letters, speeches, and autobiographical writings provide a first-person look at the history of American women.
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New York :
T.Y. Crowell,
©1990.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Women in the New World. In the beginning
- Spooled a piece- milked the cows
- Pitty your destressed daughter
- Always Leap Year
- I like this part of the world
- If ever two were one
- Foul words in my ear
- Fight, and if you can't fight, kick; if you can't kick, then bite
- The question of independence. Nor fitting for your sex
- Remember the ladies
- I would not go out unless by ye force of a bayonet
- Woman is to win every thing by peace and love
- Whatever is right for man to do, is right for woman
- All men and women are created equal
- And ain't I a woman?
- While acknowledging our mutual affection ...
- Our arrival set a buzz going
- Seeking an education. Puddings and seams
- Promise not to tell
- Much happiness
- Works by the piece
- A most extraordinary case
- All sorts of excuses
- Settling the west. They wept silently
- Left our hitherto happy home
- Four walls and the roof
- There was a prejudice against female teachers
- Hogs in my kitchen
- In America there was a great deal of gold
- A time never to be forgotten
- Work and politics. An unfortunate victim
- And learn of life from life itself
- Nothing to look forward to
- This is not the first time
- Is peace more a concern of women?
- He tore the banner down
- Race and ethnicity. True chivalry respects all womanhood
- I cannot believe that this is superstitious reverence
- Outfitted with western clothing
- A girl without a cent to her name
- They will not listen to their mother
- The modern woman. Dear Mrs. Sanger
- Extraordinarily free
- 30 cents an hour
- Having learned to stare down fear
- Simply remarkable
- You should be home with the children
- The new consciousness. The problem that has no name
- She is not free until I am free
- It's in your own head
- What got you interested in the women's movement?
- Why I want a wife
- The gay movement helped me have a family
- I just couldn't have another baby
- Women should be free to be anything they want to be
- What's ahead. I have many goals.