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. This includes Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, Alice Hamilton, Florence Kelley, Frances Willard, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Paul and others.
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The woman's sphere -- The child savers -- Attacking the nest -- The white ribbon women -- Lifting as we rise -- The agitators -- The pacifists.