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Women at large: Travel in antebellum America.

Authors :
Cohen, Patricia Cline
Source :
History Today. Dec94, Vol. 44 Issue 12, p44. 7p. 9 Black and White Photographs.
Publication Year :
1994

Abstract

Focuses on the progress and peril faced by traveling women in the pre-Civil War United States. Impact of the transportation revolution on women; Gender conventions in conversations in stagecoaches; Marked out sleeping and seating space for women in canal boats.

Subjects

Subjects :
*SOCIAL conditions of women
*TRANSPORTATION & society
*SOCIAL history
SOCIAL conditions in the United States, to 1865

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00182753
Volume :
44
Issue :
12
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
History Today
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
9501236345

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