Society's sisters : stories of women who fought for social justice in America

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Label

Society's sisters : stories of women who fought for social justice in America

Title remainder

stories of women who fought for social justice in America

Statement of responsibility

Catherine Gourley

Creator

• Gourley, Catherine, 1950-

Subject

• United States -- Moral conditions -- Juvenile literature
• Social justice -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• Women political activists
• Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• Women social reformers
• United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• United States -- Moral conditions
• Juvenile materials
• Social justice -- History -- 19th century
• Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile materials

Language

eng

Summary

Profiles nineteenth-century women who overcame the disadvantage of being female in order to change the society in which they lived, by promoting temperance, child labor laws, health care, and other causes

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 303.48/4/0973
• 303.48/4/092

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ1418

LC item number

.G68 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent