Waged Industrial Work
Two images that show women at work in different settings: at home in an urban tenement and in a factory in the rural South. The images also point to the challenges of working motherhood.
Two images that show women at work in different settings: at home in an urban tenement and in a factory in the rural South. The images also point to the challenges of working motherhood.
An illustration that raises questions about the role of women in social reform and outlines the social evils many middle-class citizens feared.
An illustration that raises questions about the role of women in social reform and outlines the social evils many middle-class citizens feared.
The four poems collected here demonstrate the hardship of living in a time when the mortality rate was much higher than today.
This document illustrates how women in English society were economically marginalized by the common law practice of coverture.
This poem by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz highlights the hypocrisy of gender relations in Spanish colonial society.