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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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She couldn't go to college. She couldn't become a politician. She couldn't even vote. But Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn't let that stop her. She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men--and that included the right to vote. It took nearly seventy-five years and generations of women fighting for their rights through words, through action, and through pure determination--for things to slowly begin to...
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40 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Demanding equal rights for women, including the right to vote, several generations of courageous women devoted their lives to liberty and equality. This story is told by three brave women--Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul--who fought in the women's suffrage fight.
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English
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In this subtly crafted biography, the historian Lori D. Ginzberg narrates the life of a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts who turned the limitations placed on women like herself into a universal philosophy of equal rights.
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xxxiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"They didn't ask to be remembered," historian Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." Today those words appear on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and more--but what do they really mean? Here, Ulrich ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who imagined a world in which...
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Presents the history of women's suffrage in the United States through the dramatic, often turbulent friendship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony. Part 1 covers the years from their youth up to the establishment of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. Part 2 spans the period from 1868 to the passage in 1919 of the 19th amendment to the Constitution which gave women the vote.
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