Explores the changing role of women in American society in the early years of the twentieth century
Explores the role of women during the Progressive Era and World War I and the growth of women's suffrage.
The history of paid employment for women, whether they are assembly line workers, astronauts, cowgirls, prostitutes, members of the President's Cabinet, or Supreme Court justices...this is the territory mapped out...
Discusses how women were treated before they had voting rights, what was being done to change the rights of women, and how it has changed in today's society.
In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye bring together work by such notable scholars as Ellen Carol DuBois, Alice Kessler-Harris, Barbara Sicherman, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn to illuminate the lives and ...
Tone, Devices and Desires, 93–94, 99, 101, 106; Brandt, No Magic Bullet, 19–20, 40–42, 57, 65–67, 73; Gordon, ... Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 26; ...
The "liberated" Woman of 1914: Prominent Women in the Progressive Era
Learn about the politicians of the early 20's and their reforms.
"This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century.
In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal.