9 00 p. M. Eastern catch washington today for a fastpaced report on the stories of the day but listen to cspan any time just tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio. Cspan powered by cable. Helping democracy is not just look like this. It looks like this where americans can seat democracy at work where citizens are truly informed. Where the public thrives. Get informed straight from the source on cspan unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the nations capitol to wherever you are it is the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan powered by cable. Let me tell you about our speaker tonight. Winifred gallaghers book include how the Great America house thinking, just the way you are, a New York Times notable book working on god, the power of place, rapt attention the focus life and new, understanding our need for novelty and change. She has written for numerous publications such as the atlantic monthly, rolling stone, and the New York Times. H
hardworking, determined women found unique opportunities. social, political, economic opportunities to become more equal to men by acting more as equals. all of these white, black and asian women were new to the west, but some of them and some of them native american and hispanic women they displaced also came to personify what was called the new woman. these new women rejected the 19th century s self sacrificing domesticity and anticipated the early 20th century s more liberated model of womanhood, based on the kind of independent, self-fulfilling way of life traditionally limited to men. appreciating women s experience in the west requires understanding something about their position in larger american society, which was terrible. by age-old law and custom, they were citizens in name only. they had no official place in civic life and very few legal rights. according to americas version of english common law, a married woman, a wife, became a , who was covered by or off