Amelia Jenks Bloomer

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks - 1818–94, American reformer, b. Homer, N.Y. She was editor (1848–54) of the Lily, first published in Seneca Falls, N.Y., and devoted to women's rights and to temperance. In 1851 she recommended and adopted the reformed dress of short skirt and full trousers introduced by Elizabeth Smith Miller. Because she advertised it in the Lily and wore it in her lecture Read More...

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Hear Me Patiently: The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer
by Anne C. Coon, Amelia Jenks Bloomer. 206 pgs.

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The only published collection of the speeches of an important nineteenth-century feminist reformer, this work sheds light on women's issues and struggles in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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Copyright Acknowledgment

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

1. IN THE CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE "A New Era Has Dawned"

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Against the Great Destroyer

Mothers of the Revolution

Most Terribly Bereft!

2. WOMAN'S EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

The Great Field of Knowledge

NOTES

Labor Is the Right

3. WOMAN'S RIGHT TO VOTE

Equality in Rights and Privileges

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Alas! Poor Adam

A Principle of All Free Governments

4. Looking back

A Score of Years Ago

Notes

Indeed It Was So Novel

Selected bibliography

INDEX

About the Editor

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A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910 (Chap. 3 "The Lily, 1849-1856: From Temperance to Woman's Rights")
by Martha M. Solomon. 240 pgs.

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1: The Role of the Suffrage Press in the Woman's Rights Movement

2: The Role of Newspapers in the Nineteenth-Century Woman's Movement

Conclusion

3: The Lily, 1849-1856 From Temperance to Woman's Rights

Conclusion

4: The Una, 1853-1855 The Premiere of the Woman's Rights Press

Conclusion

5: The Revolution, 1868-1870 Expanding the Woman Suffrage Agenda

6: The Woman's Journal, 1870-1890 The Torchbearer for Suffrage

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7: Clara Bewick Colby and the Woman's Tribune, 1883-1909 The Free Lance Editor as Movement Leader

8: The Woman's Column, 1888-1904 Extending the Suffrage Community

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9: The Farmer's Wife, 1891-1894 Raising a Prairie Consciousness

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10: The Woman's Exponent, 1872-1914 Champion for "The Rights of the Women of Zion, and the Rights of the Women of All Nations"

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11: Evolving Rhetorical Strategies/ Evolving Identities

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Bibliography

Contributors

Index

About the Series
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Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues ("The Lily" begins on p. 174)
by Kathleen L. Endres, Therese L. Lueck. 538 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

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B

C

D

E

F

G

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Appendix: Chronology

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors
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Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America ("Amelia Bloomer" begins on p. 40)
by Carol Mattingly. 175 pgs.

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Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Appropriate[ing] Dress

Introduction: Fabricated Gender

1: Friendly Dress: a Disciplined Use

2: Blooming Celebrity: the Flowering of a National Ethos

3: Restraining Women's Rhetoric: Backlash Against the Reform Dress

4: The Language of Passing and Desire: the Rhetoric of Cross-Dressing

5: [Re]fashioning a Proper Image by Dressing the Part

Conclusion: Dress and Body as Spectacle

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Works Cited

Index

Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
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Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs: 1776 to the Present ("Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894)" begins on p. 50)
by Jeannette M. Oppedisano. 283 pgs.

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Women, through their entrepreneurial endeavors, have been major contributors to the structure and economic success of the United States; yet the scope and breadth of their accomplishments have gone unrecognized. This book adds the entrepreneurial stories of over 100 women to the historical record and provides a much needed resource to researchers and educators in the fields of entrepreneurship, business, management, sociology, economics, and women's studies.

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Preface

Introduction

The Encyclopedia

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Up from the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists (Discussion of Amelia Bloomer begins on p. 221)
by Marion Marzolf. 310 pgs.

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2: Sob Sister to War Correspondent

Sources Consulted

Sources Consulted

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5: Newswoman on Camera

Sources Consulted

7: The Feminist Press Then and Now

Sources Consulted

8: Women Who Teach the Journalists

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9: View from Europe

Sources Consulted

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