French Historical Studies Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring, 1993 Getting along: Poor Women's Networks in ...

Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

As the film suggests, the lives of nineteenth-century women were deeply shaped by the so-called “cult of true womanhood,” a collection of attitudes that associated “true” womanhood with ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

Polish women only began to write cookery books and guides in the 19th century, whereas previously, they had been only readers. These also served as a vehicle for their own views – sometimes ...