Paul Cimbala, Randall Miller

Against the Tide

Women Reformers in American Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biographical essays of the 11 most influential women reformers in American history.

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Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of our government and society from the early republic to today. The volume combines scholarly vitality with readability, making it appropriate for all levels of students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780275958060
• ISBN-10: 027595806X
• Artikelnr.: 22037924

Autorenporträt

PAUL A. CIMBALA is Professor of History, Fordham University, and author of a number of books, including Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870, Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front (with Randall M. Miller),and Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (with Robert F. Himmelberg).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Catherine Beecher and Domestic Relations by Kathleen
Berkeley Mary Ann Shad Carey and Black Abolitionism by Paul A. Cimbala
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Women's Rights Movement by Ann D. Gordon
Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Frances
Willard and Temperance by Ian R. Tyrrell Jane Addams and the Settlement
House Movement by Louise W. Knight Ida Wells-Barnett and the
African-American Anti-Lynching Campaign by Lindo O. McMurry Jessie Daniel
Ames and the White Women's Anti-Lynching Campaign by Robert F. Martin
Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement by Ellen Chesler Dorothy Day
and the American Catholic Worker Movement by Anne Klejment Betty Friedan
and the National Organization for Women by Barbara McGowan Select
Bibliography on Women and Reform Index