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Society's Sisters
Catherine Gourley
其他書名
Stories of Women who Fought for Social Justice in America
出版Twenty-First Century Books, 2003-01-01
主題Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / Sociology
ISBN07613286539780761328650
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sY-2fNhZlAsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The progress that created new industries and grew cities in America in the nineteenth century also changed society. Jane Addams and Alice Hamilton, Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, Francis Willard and Alice Paul--many hundreds of women, in fact, all across the country began to question the social order of things. Women formed a sisterhood and those sisters rolled up their sleeves. They started kindergartens and playground programs. They investigated filthy living conditions in tenements, then wrote legislation to authorize a clean-up of the slums. Some formed settlements, or small communities, to teach poor families how to care for their infants. Others formed political parties to end war and to win for equal rights women, including the right to vote. With each struggle came social resistance and ridicule. Alone, a woman's voice was a whisper. Together as society's sisters, their voices thundered. This is the story of those women who dared to make a difference, and in daring changed society and the conscience of America forever.