Browsing Department of History (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Greer, Jane, 1964-"

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  • Insanity, rhetoric and women : nineteenth-century women's asylum narratives 

    Walter, Madaline Reeder (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-02)
    Among reform movements in nineteenth-­century America was insane asylum reform and women played a role in this. Some women within the walls of asylums living as patients turned to the pen as a means of informing the ...

  • Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930 

    Wood, Henrietta Rix (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-17)
    At the turn of the twentieth century, young women began to see themselves and to been seen as a distinct social group for the first time in the history of the United States. This recognition was fostered by historical ...