Women in Modern America

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Women in Modern America
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The Campaign for Suffrage

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony

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The Campaign for Birth Control

• Margaret Sanger

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The Workplace

• Women Mourning Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire,
  1911

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A Womans Place . . .

• Women and Housework

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A Womans Place . . .

• Womens Clothing The Corset, Bathing Costumes

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A Womans Place . . .

• Womens Desires
• Ladies Home Journal covers,
• Romance novel cover

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The Status Quo . . .
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Texts for Discussion

• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins
  Gilman
• Set and Written 1892
• Old Mortality by Katherine Anne Porter
• Setting Part I, 1885-1902
• Part 2, 1904
• Part 3, 1912
• Written 1930s (published 1937)