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From Pocahontas to power suits : everything you need to know about women's history in America
- Title
- From Pocahontas to power suits : everything you need to know about women's history in America / Kay Mills.
- Author
- Mills, Kay.
- Publication
- New York : Plume, ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HQ1410 .M56 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 325 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Information about women in American history are provided in a question and answer format, including information on Sarah Orne Jewett, Deborah Sampson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Maria Mitchell, Jane Colden, Susannah Medora Salter, and many more.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-314) and index.
- Contents
- The early years : from Pocahontas to the American Revolution -- Life in the young nation -- America at mid-nineteenth century : stirrings of change -- Sending the girls to school -- Unsettled lives : from the fallen woman to frontier women -- Women at work -- Teamwork : from book groups to unions -- The twentieth century : women soar and women fight -- Time out for culture -- From civil rights to women's rights.
- ISBN
- 0452271525
- 9780452271524
- LCCN
- 94034521
- OCLC
- ocm31011601
- 31011601
- SCSB-9178129
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library