Society's sisters : stories of women who fought for social justice in America /

Profiles nineteenth-century women who overcame the disadvantage of being female in order to change the society in which they lived, by promoting temperance, child labor laws, health care, and other causes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gourley, Catherine, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, [2003]
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