Hear Me Patiently - The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer

List of contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
In the Cause of Temperance
"A New Era Has Dawned"
"Against the Great Destroyer"
"Mothers of the Revolution"
"Most Terribly Bereft!"
Woman's Education and Employment
"The Great Field of Knowledge"
"Labor is the Right"
Woman's Right to Vote
"Equality in Rights and Privileges"
"Alas! Poor Adam"
"A Principle of All Free Governments"
Looking Back
"A Score of Years Ago"
"Indeed it Was So Novel"
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Anne C. Coon, who earned her PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, is associate professor and director of writing at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She writes and lectures on 19th-century literature and the rhetoric of women's reform.

Product details

• Authors: Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Anne C. Coon, Coon Anne C.
• Assisted by: Anne C. Coon (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.1994
• EAN: 9780313290862
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29086-2
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, HISTORY / Essays, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Feminism and feminist theory, Human rights, civil rights, Women's Studies