Author: Gayle V. Fischer Publisher: Kent State University Press ISBN: 9780873386821 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
Clothing is often an indication of an individual's status, and gender. By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women's fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. This visible separation of the sexes was paralleled in other arenas - social, cultural, and religions. Some women defied this convention and cut their skirts short, abandoned their corsets, and put on trousers. In Pantaloons and Power Gayle V. Fisher shows how the reformers' denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes.
Author: Robert J. Scarry Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786443405 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 433
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From the time he left office in 1853, President Millard Fillmore has become increasingly shrouded in mystery and stereotyped by anecdotes with slender connections to facts. The real Fillmore was not the weak and boring figurehead many Americans believe he was. This account of Fillmore's life is drawn largely from his family's personal papers, many of which have previously been suppressed or were unavailable or believed lost. It presents Fillmore as his own letters do, and as his friends, family members, and contemporaries saw him, as a distinguished and honorable man who was also a strong and effective president. This comprehensive work includes photographs, a genealogy of the Fillmore family, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index.
Author: John Stauffer Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674043960 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 378
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At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. Who could imagine that Gerrit Smith, one of the richest men in the country, would give away his wealth to the poor and ally himself with Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave? And why would James McCune Smith, the most educated black man in the country, link arms with John Brown, a bankrupt entrepreneur, along with the others? Distinguished by their interracial bonds, they shared a millennialist vision of a new world where everyone was free and equal. As the nation headed toward armed conflict, these men waged their own war by establishing model interracial communities, forming a new political party, and embracing violence. Their revolutionary ethos bridged the divide between the sacred and the profane, black and white, masculine and feminine, and civilization and savagery that had long girded western culture. In so doing, it embraced a malleable and "black-hearted" self that was capable of violent revolt against a slaveholding nation, in order to usher in a kingdom of God on earth. In tracing the rise and fall of their prophetic vision and alliance, Stauffer reveals how radical reform helped propel the nation toward war even as it strove to vanquish slavery and preserve the peace.
Author: Patricia Marks Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813132396 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 344
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The so-called ""New Woman""--That determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the ""womanly woman, "" a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving. Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and caricatures drawn from British and American periodicals of the 1880's and 1890's, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the
Author: Amelia Jenks Bloomer Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 252
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The only published collection of the speeches of an important nineteenth-century feminist reformer, this work sheds light on women's issues and struggles in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Author: Richard H. Bloomer EdD, DABPS, FACAPP, FACFEI Publisher: Bloomer's Books ISBN: 0984029508 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 196
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Professor Bloomer peels away the frills of our modern educational system and presents a set of straightforward teaching methods in his new book, Professor Bloomer’s No-Nonsense Spelling Program. These methods include learning both factual knowledge and the mental processing skills necessary for success. If you’re a parent, teacher, or other concerned adult responsible for the education of a child, Professor Bloomer’s book will help you teach a young learner how to learn, making future learning easier and more efficient. This no-nonsense program will not only help your child become a better speller: • It will enhance the child’s basic reading skills. • It will help the child increase his memory. • It will enhance the child’s sequencing skills—the skills of ordering ideas and things, essential for organizing thoughts and solving problems. Reading, writing, spelling, and learning problems have been Dr. Bloomer’s focus for over half a century. He successfully applies scientific neuropsychological principles to help youngsters learn to read and spell, and he’s developed prescriptive treatments for those with unique learning and attention problems—techniques he shares in this easy-to-follow guide to help children succeed both in school and in life.
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