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A House on Hubbard Street

Louise Stanton Warren

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Description:A House on Hubbard Street is the story of a small group of dedicated women who, in the early years of the women's movement, were determined to make their--and other women's--voices heard on the then-hidden subject of crimes against women. In an era when women were not expected to speak out, the Jacksonville Women's Movement faced a tide of resistance in the dusty Southern conservatism rampant in Jacksonville, Florida.The women pushed through those barriers to focus on the heinous crimes of rape and spouse abuse, establishing a rape hotline and then, in 1976, opening Hubbard House, the first battered women's shelter in the Southeast.The job of reshaping a society was not an easy one and was often dangerous for the women as well. However, with the creation of Hubbard House, the members of the Jacksonville Women's Movement started their long and colorful march toward the goal of domestic peace.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A House on Hubbard Street. To get started finding A House on Hubbard Street, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 279

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Olivette-Crooke Publishing, Inc.

Release: 1998

ISBN: 096655650X

Description: A House on Hubbard Street is the story of a small group of dedicated women who, in the early years of the women's movement, were determined to make their--and other women's--voices heard on the then-hidden subject of crimes against women. In an era when women were not expected to speak out, the Jacksonville Women's Movement faced a tide of resistance in the dusty Southern conservatism rampant in Jacksonville, Florida.The women pushed through those barriers to focus on the heinous crimes of rape and spouse abuse, establishing a rape hotline and then, in 1976, opening Hubbard House, the first battered women's shelter in the Southeast.The job of reshaping a society was not an easy one and was often dangerous for the women as well. However, with the creation of Hubbard House, the members of the Jacksonville Women's Movement started their long and colorful march toward the goal of domestic peace.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A House on Hubbard Street. To get started finding A House on Hubbard Street, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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