Once Upon a Pedestal

by Emily Hahn

Book Overview

The author points to literacy as the most important impetus in the American woman's continuing fight for equal status This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0690005075
• ISBN13: 9780690005073
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Crowell
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A look at women's history, from 1974.

This book is a reexamining of the lives of historical English-speaking women, from the vantagepoint of the revolutionary 1970s. Includes biographical commentary about Fanny Wright, the Grimke sisters, Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Victoria Woodhull, Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Martineau, and many more. A good women's history resource.