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History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 16, Women Together ; Organizational Life / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 16Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : K. G. Saur, [2012]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (516 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783598414701
  • 9783110971118
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4209
LOC classification:
  • HQ1410
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Women Together: Organizational Life -- The “Benevolent Fair”: A Study of Charitable Organization among American Women in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century -- Ladies Bountiful: Organized Women’s Benevolence in Early 19th-century America -- Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women’s Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797–1840 -- Timid Girls, Venerable Widows and Dignified Matrons: Life Cycle Patterns among Organized Women in New York and Boston, 1797–1840 -- Two “Kindred Spirits”: Sorority and Family in New England, 1839–1846 -- A “Pleasingly Oppressive” Burden: The Transformation of Domestic Service and Female Charity in Salem, 1800–1840 -- Business Heads and Sympathizing Hearts: The Women of the Providence Employment Society, 1837–1858 -- “True Philanthropy” and the Limits of the Female Sphere: Poor Relief and Labor Organizations in Ante-Bellum Cleveland -- The Silent Charity: A History of the Cincinnati Maternity Society -- The 1893 Congress of Jewish Women: Evolution or Revolution in American Jewish Women’s History? -- Organized Mother Love: The Buffalo Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, 1885–1915 -- “Our Sister’s Keepers”: The Minneapolis Woman’s Christian Association and Housing for Working Women -- Civilizing Kansas: Women’s Organizations, 1880–1920 -- Jewish Women of the Club: The Changing Public Role of Atlanta’s Jewish Women (1870–1930) -- Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women, 1896 to 1901 -- Toward a Broader Angle of Vision in Uncovering Women’s History: Black Women’s Clubs Revisited -- Beyond the Classroom: The Organizational Lives of Black Female Educators in the District of Columbia, 1890–1930 -- Women, Consumerism, and the National Consumers’ League in the Progressive Era, 1900–1923 -- “Limited Only by Earth and Sky”: The Louisville Woman’s Club and Progressive Reform, 1900–1910 -- Kansas Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1900–1930 -- Working Girls Unite -- “Sisterhood and Sociability”: The Utah Women’s Press Club, 1891–1928 -- Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870–1930 -- Copyright Information -- Index
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i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Women Together: Organizational Life -- The “Benevolent Fair”: A Study of Charitable Organization among American Women in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century -- Ladies Bountiful: Organized Women’s Benevolence in Early 19th-century America -- Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women’s Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797–1840 -- Timid Girls, Venerable Widows and Dignified Matrons: Life Cycle Patterns among Organized Women in New York and Boston, 1797–1840 -- Two “Kindred Spirits”: Sorority and Family in New England, 1839–1846 -- A “Pleasingly Oppressive” Burden: The Transformation of Domestic Service and Female Charity in Salem, 1800–1840 -- Business Heads and Sympathizing Hearts: The Women of the Providence Employment Society, 1837–1858 -- “True Philanthropy” and the Limits of the Female Sphere: Poor Relief and Labor Organizations in Ante-Bellum Cleveland -- The Silent Charity: A History of the Cincinnati Maternity Society -- The 1893 Congress of Jewish Women: Evolution or Revolution in American Jewish Women’s History? -- Organized Mother Love: The Buffalo Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, 1885–1915 -- “Our Sister’s Keepers”: The Minneapolis Woman’s Christian Association and Housing for Working Women -- Civilizing Kansas: Women’s Organizations, 1880–1920 -- Jewish Women of the Club: The Changing Public Role of Atlanta’s Jewish Women (1870–1930) -- Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women, 1896 to 1901 -- Toward a Broader Angle of Vision in Uncovering Women’s History: Black Women’s Clubs Revisited -- Beyond the Classroom: The Organizational Lives of Black Female Educators in the District of Columbia, 1890–1930 -- Women, Consumerism, and the National Consumers’ League in the Progressive Era, 1900–1923 -- “Limited Only by Earth and Sky”: The Louisville Woman’s Club and Progressive Reform, 1900–1910 -- Kansas Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1900–1930 -- Working Girls Unite -- “Sisterhood and Sociability”: The Utah Women’s Press Club, 1891–1928 -- Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870–1930 -- Copyright Information -- Index

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