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Within this printed book Henrietta Muir Edwards promotes the advancement of women's legal status in Canada, drawing on 'Provincial laws relating to naturalization, franchise, crime, marriage, divorce, property, devolution of estates, mothers and children, employment, and other subjects' to make her case. This work was published at the request of the National Council of Women of Canada and printed in 1924

Copy of Equal Rights, vol. XIX, number 1 with articles reporting upon the death of Alva Belmont in Paris and protests of women's organisations. An article by Jane Norman Smith entitled 'Wage Laws Result in Unemployment' is also featured, discussing the "movement for minimum wages legislation for women and the cutting of their hours"

An address made by Jane Norman Smith as printed in Equal Rights, vol.XIV, number 51, laying out achievements of the National Woman's Party, both in the U.S. and internationally. Their launching of the Equal Rights treaty at the Pan-American Conference is noted as an important step is raising feminist support across the world

Manche Wissenschaftler sind der Überzeugung, die Menschheit habe in den letzten fünfzig Jahren mehr Fortschritte gemacht und sich mehr verändert, als in den vorhergehenden zweitausend Jahren. Das mag für ganz bestimmte Gebiete gelten, für Technik, für die Naturwissenschaften, für Physik und Chemie und für die Raumfahrt. Auf einem der wichtigsten Gebiete unseres Lebens, im Verhältnis von Mann und Frau, und in bezug auf die Stellung der Frau in der Gesellschaft, scheint mir jedoch mehr Unklarheit, mehr Unsicherheit und Verworrenheit zu herrschen als jemals zuvor,

"Chartered as a private corporation partially supported by Pennsylvania state subsidy, Sleighton Farm was an institution which provided special correctional education for youthful offenders in the late 1800s. This study followed up on the progress of 110 women who had been committed to and subsequently released from this institution. Almost without exception, the women, aged 25-29 years at the time of the study, were classified as sex delinquents who had come under the arm of the law. The follow-up interviews were conducted 8-10 years post-release. This study represents the first attempt to test objectively the program and methods of modern reformatory training"--Chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Dictators, Old Style -- II. Dictators, New Style, and the Sort of Government They Set Up -- III. Dictators, New Style, and Their Epoch- Making Invention—the One-Party System -- IV. Propaganda, Education and Science; Youth Organizations and Women Under Dictatorships -- V. Dictators on Democracy, Haughty Disdain and Fraudulent Imitation -- VI. Do Dictators Dictate ? -- VII. Characteristics of Dictators; Are They Statesmen? -- VIII. Ten Points of Dictatorship; Franklin D. Roosevelt Fails to Qualify -- IX. What Are the Prospects of a Dictatorship in the United States ? -- Index

"The White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, called by President Hoover, assembled in Washington, November 19-22, 1930, with 3000 men and women, leaders in the medical, educational, and social fields as they touch the life of the child, in attendance. This conference included the following subjects: the dependent child; economic and social basis for child welfare standards; child labor, health of children and mothers; children in need of special care; and standardization of welfare laws. In addition the range of the conference was enlarged to consider all children, in their total aspects, including those social and environmental factors which are influencing modern childhood. Information is grouped in four main sections: medical service, public health and administration, education and training, and the handicapped"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)