"Natural Allies", based on painstaking research begun more than 30 years ago when Anne Frior Scott was preparing her now-classic "The Southern Lady", is clear and highly readable. It will appeal not only to historians and sociologists but also to anyone working with or studying voluntary organizations.
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"Documents the astonishing array of women's activities over a 200-year period... Reminds us that women found inventive ways to enter the political arena even before they voted." -- The Nation. "An elegant history." -- Journal of Southern History. "Wry humor and impassioned scholarship." - New York Times Book Review.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, as the song has it, the world turned upside down. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organized womanhood, benevolent women, antislavery women, municipal housekeeping, moral reform society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Fragment Society, New England, United States, North Carolina, Civil War, Chicago Woman's Club, Frances Willard, Jane Addams, General Federation of Women's Clubs, Lucy Stone, Middle West, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Florence Kelley, Hull House, Children's Bureau, Columbian Exposition, League of Women Voters, Radcliffe College, World War, Rhode Island, San Francisco, School Committee, Woman's Building, Women's Trade Union League New!
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, as the song has it, the world turned upside down. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organized womanhood, benevolent women, antislavery women, municipal housekeeping, moral reform society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Fragment Society, New England, United States, North Carolina, Civil War, Chicago Woman's Club, Frances Willard, Jane Addams, General Federation of Women's Clubs, Lucy Stone, Middle West, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Florence Kelley, Hull House, Children's Bureau, Columbian Exposition, League of Women Voters, Radcliffe College, World War, Rhode Island, San Francisco, School Committee, Woman's Building, Women's Trade Union League New!
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- Women In New Worlds by Hilah F Thomas on 4 pages
- Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams on 4 pages
- History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on page 150, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Das Kapital, Gateway Edition (Skeptical Reader) by Karl Marx on page 81, and page 132
- The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 by Suzanne Lebsock on page 24, and Back Matter
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