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Review Of Gentlewomen And Learned Ladies: Women And Elite Formation In Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia, Daniel P. Kilbride
Review Of Gentlewomen And Learned Ladies: Women And Elite Formation In Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia, Daniel P. Kilbride
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Review Of Slavery In White And Black: Class And Race In The Southern Slaveholders' New World Order., Daniel P. Kilbride
Review Of Slavery In White And Black: Class And Race In The Southern Slaveholders' New World Order., Daniel P. Kilbride
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Women For A Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek To Remake American Culture, Nancy Unger
Women For A Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek To Remake American Culture, Nancy Unger
History
In the autumn of 1971, sixteen Madison homemakers, including Nan Cheney and Sharon Stein, began "Women for a Peaceful Christmas" (WPC), a unique attempt to do nothing less than remake American culture. Under the slogan "No More Shopping Days 'Til Peace," WPC organized ostensibly powerless homemakers into a "quiet revolt against 'an economy which thrives on war and the destruction of our earth's resources.'' WPC urged the public (especially women, the sex that did the vast bulk of holiday shopping) to take economic, political, and environmental matters into their own hands. "If you don't want your Christmas celebrations to be …