To believe in women : what lesbians have done for America--a history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Faderman, Lillian (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
Subjects:	Lesbian feminism > United States > History. Lesbian activists > United States > History. Féminisme et lesbianisme > États-Unis > Histoire. Lesbiennes > États-Unis > Histoire. Lesbian feminism. Lesbians. United States. Geschichte Gesellschaft Lesbe Politik USA Lesbiennes. Lesbianism > historia > Förenta staterna. Kvinnorörelsen > feminism. Medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter. Rösträtt. Utbildning. Förvärvsarbete. Lesbianism > history > United States. Women's movement > feminism. Civil rights. Suffrage. Education. Gainful employment. Lesbianism > United States. > History. Lesbiska kvinnor > historia. Feminism > historia. USA. History.

Table of Contents:

I. How American women got enfranchised. The loves and living arrangements of nineteenth-century suffrage leaders
Bringing the suffrage movement into the twentieth century : Anna Howard Shaw
Victory : Carrie Chapman Catt
Two steps forward-- II. How America got a social conscience. Mother-hearts/lesbian-hearts
Social housekeeping : the inspiration of Jane Addams
Social housekeeping becomes a profession : Frances Kellor
Poisoning the source. III. How American women got educated. "Mental hermaphrodites" : pioneers in women's education
Making women's higher education even higher : M. Carey Thomas
The struggle to maintain women's leadership : Mary Emma Woolley
The triumph of Angelina : education in femininity. IV. How American women got into the professions. "When more women enter professions" : lesbian pioneering in the learned professions
Making places for women in medicine : Emily Blackwell
Carrying on : Martha May Eliot, M.D.
The rush to bake the pies and have the babies.