| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| “The Truth of It Is, She has Her Reasons for Procreating So Fast”: Maria Taylor Byrd’s Challenges to Patriarchy in Eighteenth-Century Virginia |
2012 |
7564 |
Maria Taylor Byrd (1698-1771) was the wife of wealthy colonial Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II. In the last portion of her life as a wealthy, widowed mother, Maria Byrd wielded a significant amount of control over herself and those ar... |
| With Or Without Your Blessing: Elizabeth Grimball and the Struggle of a Southern Teacher |
2015 |
943 |
Driven by financial difficulties within the households of southern families during the Civil War, women entered the workforce on an economic basis, which unintentionally instigated a social transformation of traditional gender roles. For example, Joh... |
| “She Comes Armed With The Proper Documents”: Myra Bradwell’s Fight For Women’s Rights In Bradwell V. Illinois |
2019 |
369 |
Myra Bradwell was the first woman to seriously challenge the United States Supreme Court for a woman’s right to an employment of her choosing, specifically the right to practice law. Even though Myra Bradwell’s case was struck down in the Supreme Cou... |
| Kitchen Cache: The Hidden Meaning of Gender and Cooking in Twentieth-Century American Kitchens |
2010 |
11693 |
For many centuries, women have been the designated cooks of domestic America. They have been the creators and sustainers of the American diet. But as the restaurant industry became a large force in the twentieth-century economy, the task of cooking w... |