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Your search for: "Amelia Jenks Bloomer" OR "Amelia Bloomer" OR "Bloomer Amelia"


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Research Topics on: "Amelia Jenks Bloomer" OR "Amelia Bloomer" OR "Bloomer Amelia"

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Books on: "Amelia Jenks Bloomer" OR "Amelia Bloomer" OR "Bloomer Amelia"

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Journal Articles on: "Amelia Jenks Bloomer" OR "Amelia Bloomer" OR "Bloomer Amelia"

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Magazine Articles on: "Amelia Jenks Bloomer" OR "Amelia Bloomer" OR "Bloomer Amelia"

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Newspaper Articles on: "Amelia Jenks Bloomer" OR "Amelia Bloomer" OR "Bloomer Amelia"

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    Mailbox; Why I'm Now a Granny-Basher
    Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), January 31, 1999
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Minnie Mickle, Braco, Perthshire. HOW did womens underwear come to be called bloomers? - S. Cross, Glasgow. FEMINIST Amelia Jenks Bloomer, a New York postmistress, invented the baggy pants in 1851 to ride a cycle while championing womens rights. Men wore...
     
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    How We Really Got to the Beach
    Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, July 12, 1998
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...book is the authors tracing of the virtually completed cycle from early beach nudity through the sartorial creations of Amelia Jenks Bloomer to beach arrests for wearing swimsuits too short in the leg and the bikini, first called the "Atome" when it came out...
     
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    Vacation Nation
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 19, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...in Seneca Falls, N.Y., on this day in 1848. Major agenda item: Revolutionary ladies bloomers were introduced by Amelia Jenks Bloomer to a most appreciative audience. President Arthur 125 years ago today issued a proclamation granting the federal government...
     
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    One Day, Mr Leotard Wore a Skin Tight Body Stocking, the Next He Was a Househo Name . . . THE MOST FAMILIAR NAMES TELL THE STRANGEST STORIES
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 13, 1996
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...soup tin to achieve immortality. What you need to do is commit a great big bloomer. That is what New York postmistress Amelia Jenks Bloomer did when she championed womens rights by wearing the voluminous trousers that were named after her. As the eponymous...
     
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    Bringing out the Bloomers
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 16, 2007
    Subjects: 
    Festivals
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Stanton endorsed the practice, saying it changed the focus from how women looked to how they felt. Seneca Falls publisher Amelia Bloomer pressed for pantaloons so strongly in her pioneering womens newspaper The Lily that the mainstream press ridiculed them...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Amelia Jenks Bloomer" OR "Amelia Bloomer" OR "Bloomer Amelia"

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    Bloomer, Amelia Jenks
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    BLOOMER, AMELIA JENKS 1818 94, American reformer, b. Homer, N.Y. She was editor (1848 54) of the Lily, first published in Seneca Falls...
     

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