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Free Download The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930 (American Ways Series) By Jean V. Matthews
2003 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1566635004 | PDF | 36 MB
Matthews's book chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period to its final victory that brought women the vote.The twenty years on either side of the turn of the twentiethcentury were a period of fundamental change and expansion inthe roles and opportunities open to American women. The periodculminated in the eventual success of a long drawn-outagitation for the vote, which seemed to bestow both formalrecognition of equal citizenship and offer the opportunity for politicalpower. [n these forty years women had at least gained accessto, and sometimes achieved substantial participation in, alllevels of education, almost all the professions, a much widerrange of jobs, and thus opportunities for some financial independence and a greater level of personal freedom. In the nextfifty years it would become apparent that many doors were stilleffectively shut, and that much of the promise and appearanceof equality was illusory, but to most middle-class women thisearlier period offered a sense of progress and widening horizons.