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History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 8/1, Professional and White-Collar Employments / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 8/1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : K. G. Saur, [2012]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783598414626
  • 9783110979091
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.409
LOC classification:
  • HQ1410
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Professional and White-Collar Employments -- The Female School Teacher in Ante-Bellum Massachusetts -- In from the Periphery: American Women in Science, 1830–1880 -- American Female Historians in Context, 1770–1930 -- “To Barter Their Souls for Gold”: Female Clerks in Federal Government Offices, 1862–1890 -- The Duty or Right to Care? Nursing and Womanhood in Historical Perspective -- Professionalism, Feminism, and Gender Roles: A Comparative Study of Nineteenth-Century Medical Therapeutics -- Feminism, Professionalism, and Germs: The Thought of Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell -- Doctors or Ladies? Women Physicians in Psychiatric Institutions, 1872–1900 -- From Hospital to College: Black Nurse Leaders and the Rise of Collegiate Nursing Schools -- Barred from the Bar: Women and Legal Education in the United States 1870-1890 -- ‘Little World of Our Own’: The Pennsylvania Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1895–1907 -- Research Note: The Male-Female Earnings Differential. A Historical Overview of the Clerical Occupations from the 1880s to the 1970s -- The Labor Market and the American High School Girl 1890–1928 -- Woman’s Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force -- Female Solidarity and Professional Success: The Dilemma of Women Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century America -- The Tender Technicians: The Feminization of Public Librarianship, 1876–1905 -- Women in the Professions: A Research Agenda for American Historians -- Self-Assertion and Social Commitment: The Significance of Work to the Progressive Era’s New Woman

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Professional and White-Collar Employments -- The Female School Teacher in Ante-Bellum Massachusetts -- In from the Periphery: American Women in Science, 1830–1880 -- American Female Historians in Context, 1770–1930 -- “To Barter Their Souls for Gold”: Female Clerks in Federal Government Offices, 1862–1890 -- The Duty or Right to Care? Nursing and Womanhood in Historical Perspective -- Professionalism, Feminism, and Gender Roles: A Comparative Study of Nineteenth-Century Medical Therapeutics -- Feminism, Professionalism, and Germs: The Thought of Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell -- Doctors or Ladies? Women Physicians in Psychiatric Institutions, 1872–1900 -- From Hospital to College: Black Nurse Leaders and the Rise of Collegiate Nursing Schools -- Barred from the Bar: Women and Legal Education in the United States 1870-1890 -- ‘Little World of Our Own’: The Pennsylvania Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1895–1907 -- Research Note: The Male-Female Earnings Differential. A Historical Overview of the Clerical Occupations from the 1880s to the 1970s -- The Labor Market and the American High School Girl 1890–1928 -- Woman’s Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force -- Female Solidarity and Professional Success: The Dilemma of Women Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century America -- The Tender Technicians: The Feminization of Public Librarianship, 1876–1905 -- Women in the Professions: A Research Agenda for American Historians -- Self-Assertion and Social Commitment: The Significance of Work to the Progressive Era’s New Woman

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