"On the Imitation of Man"
Essay
By: Ida M. Tarbell
Date: 1913
Source: Tarbell, Ida M. "On the Imitation of Man" in The Business of Being a Woman. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913, 30–36.
About the Author: Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944) became America's most famous investigative journalist of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The daughter of an independent oil refiner who was driven out of business by the ruthless tactics of Standard Oil Company's John D. Rockefeller, Tarbell gained her revenge with The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), a devastating book that exposed Rockefeller. The piece also helped to launch her career as a muckraker (someone who exposes misconduct of a prominent individual).
Introduction
By 1920 the first phase of the American Feminist Movement had triumphed. Women received the right to vote with the...
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