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Feminist frontiers : women who shaped the Midwest / edited by Yvonne J. Johnson. - Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, c2010. - xxv, 206 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frances Dana Gage : "turning the world upside down" / Jeffrey E. Smith -- Mary Sibley : genteel reformer / Mary Ellen Rowe -- Amanda Berry Smith : pioneer for African American child care / Marcia Chatelaine -- Linda Warfel Slaughter : cultural education in North Dakota / Barbara Handy-Marchello -- Marietta Bones : personality and politics in the South Dakota suffrage movement / Nancy Tystad Koupal -- Carry Nation : the Kansas cyclone / Patricia Ashman -- Alice French : Indiana war mothers : from World War I "kitchen soldiers" to postwar immigrant reformers / Elizabeth Cafer du Plessis -- Efrieda von Rohr Sauer : a life reinterpreted / Carol Piper Heming -- Esther Twente : community builder / Maureen Wilt -- Genora Dollinger : a revolutionary from Michigan / Carlton Jackson -- Harriett Friedman Woods : from Midwest politics to national power / Yvonne J. Johnson and Shari Bax.

ISBN: 9781935503026 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1935503022 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009040092

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women political activists--Middle West--Biography.
Women civil rights workers--Middle West--Biography.
Women social reformers--Middle West--Biography.
Feminists--Middle West--Biography.
Women--Middle West--Biography.
Women--Political activity--History.--Middle West
Sex role--History.--Middle West

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Middle West--Biography.
Middle West--Social conditions.
Middle West--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: HQ1236.5.U6 / F45 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 305.420977