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Women who dared : the history of Finnish American women / edited by Carl Ross and K. Marianne Wargelin Brown.

Title
Women who dared : the history of Finnish American women / edited by Carl Ross and K. Marianne Wargelin Brown.
Publication
St. Paul, Minn. : Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, 1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Wargelin Brown, K. Marianne.
  • Ross, Carl, 1913-
  • University of Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center.
Description
xi, 164 p. : ports.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Finnish Americans > History
  • Finnish Americans > Biography
  • Women > United States > History
  • Women > United States > Biography
  • Women immigrants > United States
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I. Trailblazers in Finland for women's rights -- The legacy of Mummu's granddaughters -- Servant girls: community leaders -- Piikajutut: stories Finnish maids told -- The feminist dilemma in the Finnish immigrant community -- A closer look at Finnish American women's issues -- Part two. Minna Canth: her political, social and cultural significance in Finland -- Canth's sojourn in America -- Three proponents of women's rights -- Three "founding mothers" of Finnish America -- Milma Lappala: Unitarian minister and humanist.
ISBN
0932833055 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^86080998^
OCLC
14508505
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library