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Bird Woman

(Encyclopedia) Bird Woman: see Sacajawea.

woman suffrage

(Encyclopedia) woman suffrage, the right of women to vote. Throughout the latter part of the 19th cent. the issue of women's voting rights was an important phase of feminism. On the European…

Two-Woman

Time1United States II1:37.762Germany I1:38.063Germany II1:38.29USA II—Jill Bakken & Vonetta Flowers; GER I—Sandra Prokoff & Ulrike Holzner; GER II—Susi-Lisa Erdmann & Nicole…

Ain't I A Woman?

by Sojourner Truth Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all…

Discourse On Woman

by LucretiaMott There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true and proper position of woman. Much has been said,…

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is the super-powered heroine who has been fighting evildoers since her comic book debut in 1941. Wonder Woman was created that year by "Charles Moulton" -- a pen name for William…

Brewer's: Scarlet Woman

Some controversial Protestants apply the words to the Church of Rome, and some Romanists, with equal “good taste,” apply them to London. The Book of Revelation says, “It is that great city…

Brewer's: Tub-woman

(A). A drawer of beer at a country public-house. “The common people had always a tradition that the queen's [Anne] grandmother ... had been a washerwoman, or, as Cardinal York asserted, a…