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Jane Grey Swisshelm : an unconventional life, 1815-1884 / Sylvia D. Hoffert.
Van Pelt Library HQ1413.S95 H64 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffert, Sylvia D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 1815-1884.
- Swisshelm, Jane Grey.
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Women--Political activity.
- Women newspaper editors.
- United States.
- Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Women social reformers.
- Women newspaper editors--United States--Biography.
- Women--Political activity--United States--Biography.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- In this biography, Hoffert shows how Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884), a feminist, abolitionist, journalist, and newspaper editor, was an unconventionally ambitious woman who publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited her political and economic opportunities, and attempted to silence her voice.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807828815
- OCLC:
- 54694490
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