Jane Grey Swisshelm : an unconventional life, 1815-1884 /
19th-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother; she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior and limited he...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
©2004.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807875889_hoffert |
Sommario:
- That olde-time religion
- A marriage fraught with conflict
- The troublesome matter of property
- Woman's work in a man's world
- A different sort of politics
- A world in need of improvement
- Respectable but not genteel.