Clothes & Fashion, Women's History - United States, Fiction - General & Miscellaneous, United States - History - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
As the NEWBERY Honor Book author Rhoda Blumberg and artist Mary Morgan reveal in this amusing but true piece of Americana, the struggle to secure women's rights got a tremendous boost from an unexpected source--that very practical and daring outfit--bloomers!Explains how the new-fashioned outfit, bloomers, helped Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony spread the word about women's rights.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
A significant subject--the early struggle for women's rights--receives disappointing treatment from a Newbery Honor winner. Blumberg ( Jumbo ) chronicles Libby Miller's 1851 invention of bloomers, a loose-fitting alternative to constricting corsets and petticoats (referred to as ``the female's `cage' '' and as ``a `clothes prison' ''). The bloomers serve here as a symbol of--and vehicle for--the growing women's suffrage movement. But Blumberg's text is choppy and didactic, plunging readers headlong into a jumble of social issues (women's fashions, voting rights, the temperance crusade, hair-bobbing, social mores and general oppression of women). She invokes a panoply of historical figures (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Amelia Bloomer as well as Miller), but doesn't delineate their achievements. Morgan's ( Jake Bakes a Cake ) workmanlike watercolors, lacking in facial detail, tend to trivialize the book's important themes. Ages 5-10. (Sept.)Book Details
Published
October 31, 1993
Publisher
Prentice Hall & IBD
Pages
32
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780027116847