women

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women

Amendment XIX

granting women the right to vote
2009
Explores the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States through primary and secondary sources, both historical and contemporary.

Dorothea Lange

a life in pictures
2008
Profiles the photographer Dorothea Lange, who made a name for herself taking pictures during the Great Depression.

Woman, church and state

a historical account of the status of woman through the christian ages with reminiscences of the matriarchate
1998

Shout, sister, shout!

ten girl singers who shaped a century
2001
A collective biography of ten outstanding female singers of popular music in the twentieth century.

Decades of beauty

the history of 100 years of change in clothes, cosmetics, underwear, hairstyling, media, and women's place in society that have defined the female image in the 20th century
1998
Photographs and text help demonstrate how American society's idea of beauty has changed from the 1890s to the 1990s; includes descriptions of the popular trends, fashions, and models from each decade.

Setting a course

American women in the 1920s
1987
Examines the identity of "the new woman" of the 1920s chronicling their struggles and experiences in contrast to popular images set forth in the mass media and in literature of the day.

Holding their own

American women in the 1930s
1982
Surveys the experiences and contributions of American women during the Depression.

Moll Flanders

2002
Moll Flanders, born in Newgate Prison, pursues a life of adventure that eventually leads her to a position of wealth and stature in bustling eighteenth-century London.

Orlando

a biography
1973
A fictional biography of the gender-bending Orlando and his adventures throughout four centuries, from Elizabethan England to the 1900s.

And eternity

1990
Three women form a triumvirate and pursue a mysterious quest that takes them through numerous trials and their souls become the proving ground for eternal questions of good, evil, and divinity.

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