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Women in the 19th Century - Further Reading

Barry, David. Women and Political Insurgency: France in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1996, 213 p.

Recounts the participation of French women in political and social rebellions from the 1789 Revolution through the 1870s.

Browne, Stephen Howard. Angelina Grimké. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 1999, 201 p.

Studies the social activism of Angelina Grimké, one of the first American women to publicly contest the institution of slavery and the social limitations placed on women.

Chadwick, Whitney. "Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the Nineteenth Century." In Women, Art, and Society, pp. 191-209. London, England: Thames and Hudson, 1990.

Describes how American women in the first half of the nineteenth century increasingly used art as a means to show their support...

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