UID:
edocfu_9959232735502883
Format:
1 online resource (165 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-84-00-65479-4
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0-313-00073-5
Series Statement:
Contributions in women's studies, no. 187
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Cover -- FROM THE FIELD TO THE LEGISLATURE -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- NOTE -- CHAPTER 1 Slavery -- BIRTH OF A COLONY -- CONSTRUCTING VERSIONS OF WOMANHOOD: PLANTATION SOCIETY, 1700-1834 -- FINDING FREEDOM AND RESISTING DEFINITION -- WOMEN OF RESPECT: EXERTING INFLUENCE AND EXERCISING POWER -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 Amelioration -- ABOLITIONISTS AND PATRIARCHY -- SHAPING THE NEW WOMAN -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 Post-Abolition Virgin Islands Society -- EMANCIPATION AND ITS IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH -- POST-ABOLITION GOVERNMENT -- MISSIONARIES IN POST-ABOLITION VIRGIN ISLANDS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 New Challenges -- WOMEN IN POST-ABOLITION SOCIETY AND ECONOMY -- EDUCATION AND WOMEN -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 Constructing Self -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY GOVERNMENT -- WOMEN IN THE SOCIETY AND IN THE FAMILY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 Public Lives -- WOMEN AND WELFARE -- WOMEN IN THE ECONOMY -- WOMEN IN EDUCATION: LEADING THE WAY -- WOMEN IN HEALTH -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 The Boom Years, 1970-1995 -- PROGRESS AND CHANGE -- WOMEN IN THE ECONOMY: GAINING GROUND -- WOMEN AND THE FAMILY -- WOMEN AND SOCIAL POLICY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 Political Women -- POLITICAL GAINS SINCE 1970 -- FACTORS AFFECTING WOMEN'S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS -- MANUSCRIPT AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES -- NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSLETTERS: 1853, 1949-1995 -- Index -- About the Author.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-313-31756-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798400654794
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