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Although many women participated in expanding women's public roles, women accepted and pressed for change in varying degrees. The symbol of the new woman was a conglomeration of aspects of many different women from across the nation who lived between the 1890s and the 1920s.
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Both Catholics and Protestants disapproved of the new woman...
- Work, Education, and Reform
Women adrift and "working girls" were among the pioneers of...
- Image & Lifestyle
Black and white women as well as new immigrants from Eastern...
- African American New Woman
The Harlem Renaissance and its invention of the New Negro...
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An exhibition portfolio from the Schomberg Center for...
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Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in...
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Oct 9, 2020 · In late 19th- and early 20th-century America, a new image of womanhood emerged that began to shape public views and understandings of women’s role in society. Identified by contemporaries as a Gibson Girl, a suffragist, a Progressive reformer, a bohemian feminist, a college girl, a bicyclist, a flapper, a working-class militant, or a ...
News about women and girls, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Feb 6, 2024 · Her new novel, The Women, about a young woman coming of age during the turbulent 1960's in America, who joins the Army Nurse Corps and serves in Vietnam will be published February 6th, 2024. A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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Apr 2, 2015 · Phyllis Schlafly, the 90-year-old conservative activist who founded the Eagle Forum, insists gender-neutral employment law already protects women doing equal work with equal experience. The ERA...
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Feb 1, 2024 · Kristin Hannah’s New Novel Puts Combat Nurses Front and Center in Vietnam. “The Women” follows a San Diego debutante into a world of gut wounds and napalm. But the real challenge comes when ...
The New Deal was a revolutionary era, opening up a vast new space of opportunity and benefits for women, one that tapped into their leadership abilities, wide-ranging skill sets, and life experiences like never before.
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