To believe in women : what lesbians have done for America--a history /

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Author / Creator: Faderman, Lillian.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. How American women got enfranchised. The loves and living arrangements of nineteenth-century suffrage leaders
  • Bringing the suffrage movement into the twentieth century : Anna Howard Shaw
  • Victory : Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Two steps forward-- . II. How America got a social conscience. Mother-hearts/lesbian-hearts
  • Social housekeeping : the inspiration of Jane Addams
  • Social housekeeping becomes a profession : Frances Kellor
  • Poisoning the source. III. How American women got educated. "Mental hermaphrodites" : pioneers in women's education
  • Making women's higher education even higher : M. Carey Thomas
  • The struggle to maintain women's leadership : Mary Emma Woolley
  • The triumph of Angelina : education in femininity. IV. How American women got into the professions. "When more women enter professions" : lesbian pioneering in the learned professions
  • Marking places for women in medicine : Emily Blackwell
  • Carrying on : Martha May Eliot, M.D.
  • The rush to bake the pies and have the babies.