Early Opposition to "Platform Women"

unknown (1899) Early Opposition to "Platform Women". The Woman's Signal, 11 (270). p. 134.

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Abstract

Article on the obstacles faced by American women entering "into platform work." Includes an account from Caroline Severance of negative reactions to her first public speech. Severance also lists a number of other incidents where female speakers or men speaking in favour of women's public work, were assaulted verbally or physically by audience members.

Item Type:	Article
Categories:	1 Genre > 1.6 (Auto) Biography 1 Genre > 1.15 Journalist's Report 2 Content > 2.13 Other 3 Context > 3.1 Abroad 3 Context > 3.3 Conference/Congress 3 Context > 3.5 Lecture 3 Context > 3.8 Provincial 4 Form of Participation > 4.2 Speaker 5 Textualisation of Lecture > 5.3 Mentioned with Title 5 Textualisation of Lecture > 5.4 Mentioned without Title
Number of Pages:	1
URI:	http://victorianlecturing.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/2002

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