The Business of Charity

Kathleen Sander

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• In the nineteenth century, Woman's Exchanges formed a vast national network that created economic alternatives for financially vulnerable women in a w... Lees meer

Feminist Coalitions

Stephanie Gilmore

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Much of the scholarship on second-wave feminism has focused on divisions within the women's movement and its narrow conception of race and class, but ... Lees meer

Habits of Compassion

Maureen Fitzgerald

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine throu... Lees meer

I Came a Stranger

Hilda Polacheck

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. ... Lees meer

The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30

Jan Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse Jan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by ... Lees meer

Reinventing Marriage

Lori Kenschaft

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• At age twenty-six Alice Freeman became the world's first female college president (at Wellesley College). Before going on to become the first Dean of ... Lees meer

Reshaping Women's History

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes lite... Lees meer

Mining Cultures

Mary Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Butte, Montana, long deserved its reputation as a wide-open town. Mining Cultures shows how the fabled Montana city evolved from a male-dominated mini... Lees meer

Creating the New Woman

Judith N McArthur

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Regionally distinct yet influenced by national trends, women's progressive culture in Texas offers a valuable opportunity to analyze the evolution of ... Lees meer

Colored No More

Treva B Lindsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the ... Lees meer

The Challenge of Feminist Biography

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• This path-breaking anthology illuminates the lives of ten influential twentieth-century American women and looks at the challenges experienced by the ... Lees meer

U.S. Women in Struggle

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• This collection of essays from the pioneering journal Feminist Studies focuses on women engaged in struggles of many kinds over the course of United S... Lees meer

Civil Wars

George C Rable

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians o... Lees meer

Black Women and Politics in New York City

Julie A Gallagher

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• An essential contribution to twentieth-century political history, Black Women and Politics in New York City documents African American women in New Yo... Lees meer

Leaders of Their Race

Sarah H Case

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative ... Lees meer

Dressed for Freedom

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabin... Lees meer

Cold War Progressives

Jacqueline Castledine

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• In recognizing the relation between gender, race, and class oppression, American women of the postwar Progressive Party made the claim that peace requ... Lees meer

Reshaping Women's History

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes lite... Lees meer

Southern Discomfort

Nancy A Hewitt

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial m... Lees meer

Women Against Abortion

Karissa Haugeberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Women from remarkably diverse religious, social, and political backgrounds made up the rank-and-file of anti-abortion activism. Empowered by--yet in m... Lees meer

We, Too, Are Americans

Megan Taylor Shockley

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• During World War II, factories across America retooled for wartime production, and unprecedented labor opportunities opened up for women and minoritie... Lees meer

Southern Discomfort

Nancy A Hewitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial m... Lees meer

Nursing Civil Rights

Charissa J Threat

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• In Nursing Civil Rights , Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white me... Lees meer

Mistresses and Slaves

Marli F Weiner

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation--a world in which white mistre... Lees meer