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1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
Papers presented at a symposium at Westfield State College in October 1992. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Victorian values in the marketplace : single women and work in Boston, 1800-1850 / Susan L. Porter -- The feminization of teaching in Massachusetts : a reconsideration / James M. Wallace -- Étre ŕ l'ouvrage ou étre maitresse de maison : French-Canadian women and work in late nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Paul R. Dauphinais -- Good men and "working girls" : the bureau of statistics of labor, 1870-1900 / Henry F. Bedford -- The gendered foundations of social work education in Boston, 1904-1930 / Linda M. Shoemaker -- Caroline Healey Dall : her creation and reform career / Nancy Bowman -- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin : a nineteenth-century journalist of Boston's Black elite class / Rodger Streitmatter -- Julia Harrington Duff and the political awakening of Irish-American women in Boston, 1888-1905 / Polly Welts Kaufman -- "The simplest of New England spinsters" : becoming Emily Greene Balch, 1867-1961 / Patricia A. Palmieri -- Beyond servants and salesgirls : working women's education in Boston, 1885-1915 / Laurie Crumpacker. |
| Summary |
These essays reflect the complexity and richness of current scholarship in women's history. Informed by a variety of source materials and methodologies, the ten chapters break down a generalized construct of "womanhood" to explore the dynamics between gender, race, ethnicity, and class." "The first section of the book focuses on women's work, paid and unpaid, and the effects of class, ethnicity, and gender on the structure of the job market and on power relations within the family. The second section revisits the concept of "sisterhood" by looking at women in relation to their families, social and cultural networks, and civic and private institutions. The editor's introduction sets the essays in the current historiographical context of women's studies and provides a bibliographical essay for the nonspecialist reader. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Women -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Women -- Employment -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Social change.
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Massachusetts -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Porter, Susan L., editor.
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American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0585153922 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585153926 (electronic bk.) |
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1122054335 |
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9781122054331 |
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1558490051 |
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1558490043 |
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9781558490055 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781558490048 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781685750602 (ebk) |
| Standard No. |
heb40174 hdl |
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