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That young women were forced to work outside the home in order to supplement and regularize insufficient and uncertain family income implied the need for legislation that would strengthen the market position of men workers as well, ...
That young women were forced to work outside the home in order to supplement and regularize insufficient and uncertain family income implied the need for legislation that would strengthen the market position of men workers as well, ...
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Their conviction that women were blessed with an instinct for compassion and nurturing smacks too much of what we hold to be the ultimately limiting bourgeois ethos of the nineteenth-century "cult of domesticity." It is important, then, ...
Their conviction that women were blessed with an instinct for compassion and nurturing smacks too much of what we hold to be the ultimately limiting bourgeois ethos of the nineteenth-century "cult of domesticity." It is important, then, ...
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The rest of the book is devoted to supporting themes — mothers' enduring love (and its frustration by cruel husbands and a brutal world); the safeguarding of family life; woman's mission to understand, pity, and nurture, ...
The rest of the book is devoted to supporting themes — mothers' enduring love (and its frustration by cruel husbands and a brutal world); the safeguarding of family life; woman's mission to understand, pity, and nurture, ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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