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They dared to dream : Florida women who shaped history / Doris Weatherford with the Florida Commission on the Status of Women Foundation, Inc.
Van Pelt Library HQ1438.F6 W43 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weatherford, Doris, author.
- Florida. Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Florida--History.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity--Florida--History.
- Women--Political activity.
- History.
- Florida.
- Physical Description:
- 560 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2015]
- Contents:
- 1 A Time Before 1
- 2 Newcomers: The First European Women, 1513-1819 15
- 3 From Spanish Colony to Statehood and Secession, 1820-1859 53
- 4 "We Live On Cornbread and Hope": The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1860-1880 114
- 5 "The World Is Not Suffering for Another Cake Recipe": Women's Lives Expand, 1881-1900 150
- 6 A New Century, 1901-1920 190
- 7 Up and Then Down, 1921-1940 229
- 8 World War II and Its Aftermath, 1941-1960 307
- 9 Agents of Change, 1961-1980 360
- 10 Through the Twentieth Century, 1981-2000 413
- 11 After the New Millennium 471.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-536) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813060606
- 0813060605
- OCLC:
- 889164760
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