The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930 (American Ways Series)

232 Pages·2003·35.194 MB·English

by  Jean V. Matthews

'The Womens Movement
in America)
1875,,1930
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yolll'Self, form opinions, is the
imperative mood in which the
times address modern women."
- Atlantic Munthly, 1880
The twenty years o,n ~ither siae '°f the turn
of the nineteenth century brought
fundamental cha~e and. expabSion to the
roles and opportunities of American women.
As one o~er noted~ "Home was no
longer the {oous of all their endeavors." In
these yeai:s women gained access to all
le els of education, almost all the
professions, a much wider range of jobs, and
opportunities for a measure of financial
independence and gteate1:-pe?S9nal freedom.
In some areas their ace.omplishni.~nts were
substantial. Over the next fifty ,years,
though it w:ould heoome apparent that
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many doors were still shut and that much
of the ptomise and appearance of equality
was iJlu.sory.
The wil'lning of the vo~ was eentffll to
women's aspirati0ns in these y;ears. In The
Bue of the New Woman, Jean Matthews
chronicles the ch"'1ging f9rt-unes and
transform~tions of the organized suffrage
movement~ from its dism~ petiod of
cleelining numbers and camptign failures to
its final victery in the Nineteenth
Amendment that brought women the vote.
In an enga.ging nar,ra~ive, she recaptures the
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The Rise of the New Woman

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THE RISE OF THE
NEWWOMAN
The Womens Movement in
America, 1875-1930
Jean V. Matthews
The American Ways Series
IVAN R. DEE Chicago
THE R£SE OF THE NEW WOMAN. Copyright © 2003 by Jean V.
Matthews. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book
or portions thereof in any form. Fo,r information, address: Ivan R. Dee,
Publisher, 1332 North Halsted Street, Chicago 6o622. Manufactured in
the United States of America and printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Matthews, Jean V., 1937-
The rise of the new woman: the women's movement in America,
1875- 1930/ Jean V. Matthews.
p. cm. - (The American ways series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56663-500-4 (cloth : alik. paper) - ISBN 1-56663-501-2
(paper: alk. paper)
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