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Encyclopedia of Women's History
from Jone Johnson Lewis
INDEX
• Abbess
• ACTWU: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers
• Addicks - Pennsylvania v. Addicks
• Afghanistan - Gender Roles
• Austria: Status of Women
• Baby M
• Bhutan - Role of Women
• Boston Female Medical College
• Brazil: Women
• Canada - Women's History Month
• Captivity Narratives
• Child Custody
• Chile: Abortion
• Chile: Contraception
• Chile: Divorce
• Chile: Family Structure
• Chile: Gender Roles
• Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion
• Comparable Worth
• Comstock Law
• Coverture
• Curtesy
• Daughters of Bolitis
• DAR: Daughters of the American Revolution
• DOB
• Dower
• Dowry
• Egypt - Women
• Ethiopia - Role of Women
• Famous Five / Persons Case
• Female Buffalo Soldier
• Finland: Marriage
• Finland: Status of Women
• First Woman to Vote
• First Woman to Vote in the U.S. under the 19th Amendment
• Germany: Status of Women
• Hull-House and Jane Addams		 • ILGWU: International Ladies Garment Workers Union
• Indian Captivity Narratives
• Iran - Status of Women
• LFLRA: Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
• Married Women's Property Act, New York, 1848
• Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
• Nepal: Status of Women and Role in Society
• Oberlin College
• Pakistan: Female Education
• Pakistan: Gender Relations
• Pakistan: Status of Women and the Women's Movement
• Pennsylvania v. Addicks
• Persons Case / Famous Five
• Poland - Women
• Property Rights
• Radical Feminism
• Roe v. Wade
• Salic Law
• Sanitary Commission
• Sanitary Napkins
• Separate Estate
• Subjectivity
• Hanna Suchocka's Government
• Sri Lankan Army Women's Corps
• Suffragette
• Tailhook Trial and Settlement
• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial, 1911
• UNITE
• United States v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)
• Virginia Military Institute
• Vivandieres - Civil War
• Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
• WEIU: Women's Educational and Industrial Union
• Cathay Williams
• Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

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