Feminist frontiers : women who shaped the Midwest / edited by Yvonne J. Johnson.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Johnson, Yvonne, 1945-
Language:English
Published: Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, ©2010, [2009]
Subjects:
Women political activists > Middle West > Biography.
Women civil rights workers > Middle West > Biography.
Women social reformers > Middle West > Biography.
Feminists > Middle West > Biography.
Women > Middle West > Biography.
Women > Political activity > Middle West > History.
Sex role > Middle West > History.
Middle West > Biography.
Middle West > Social conditions.
Middle West > Politics and government.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xxv, 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Frances Dana Gage : "turning the world upside down" / Jeffrey E. Smith
  • Mary Sibley : genteel reformer / Mary Ellen Rowe
  • Amanda Berry Smith : pioneer for African-American child care / Marcia Chatelaine
  • Linda Warfel Slaughter : cultural education in North Dakota / Barbara Handy-Marcello
  • Marietta Bones : personality and politics in the South Dakota suffrage movement / Nancy Tystad Koupal
  • Carry Nation : the Kansas cyclone / Patricia Ashman
  • Alice French : Indiana war mothers : from World War I "kitchen soldiers" to postwar immigrant reformers / Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis
  • Efrieda von Rohr : in search of a life / Carol Piper Heming
  • Esther Twente : community builder / Maureen Wilt
  • Genora Dollinger : a revolutionary from the Michigan Midwest / Carlton Jackson
  • Harriett Woods : from Midwest politics to national power / Yvonne J. Johnson and Shari Bax.