Women of the commonwealth :
Women of the commonwealth : work, family, and social change in nineteenth-century Massachusetts /
edited by Susan L. Porter.
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1996.
- 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Papers presented at a symposium at Westfield State College in October 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Victorian values in the marketplace : single women and work in Boston, 1800-1850 / The feminization of teaching in Massachusetts : a reconsideration / �Etre �a l'ouvrage ou �etre maitresse de maison : French-Canadian women and work in late nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Good men and "working girls" : the bureau of statistics of labor, 1870-1900 / The gendered foundations of social work education in Boston, 1904-1930 / Caroline Healey Dall : her creation and reform career / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin : a nineteenth-century journalist of Boston's Black elite class / Julia Harrington Duff and the political awakening of Irish-American women in Boston, 1888-1905 / "The simplest of New England spinsters" : becoming Emily Greene Balch, 1867-1961 / Beyond servants and salesgirls : working women's education in Boston, 1885-1915 / Susan L. Porter -- James M. Wallace -- Paul R. Dauphinais -- Henry F. Bedford -- Linda M. Shoemaker -- Nancy Bowman -- Rodger Streitmatter -- Polly Welts Kaufman -- Patricia A. Palmieri -- Laurie Crumpacker.
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"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."--Jacket.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
0585153922 9780585153926 1122054335 9781122054331
1800-1899
Women--History--Massachusetts--19th century--Congresses.
Women--Employment--History--Massachusetts--19th century--Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
Social conditions
Women.
Women--Employment.
Women--history.
Social Change.
Employment--history.
Massachusetts--Social conditions--Congresses.
Massachusetts.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HQ1438.M4 / W63 1996eb
305.4/09744/09034
Papers presented at a symposium at Westfield State College in October 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Victorian values in the marketplace : single women and work in Boston, 1800-1850 / The feminization of teaching in Massachusetts : a reconsideration / �Etre �a l'ouvrage ou �etre maitresse de maison : French-Canadian women and work in late nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Good men and "working girls" : the bureau of statistics of labor, 1870-1900 / The gendered foundations of social work education in Boston, 1904-1930 / Caroline Healey Dall : her creation and reform career / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin : a nineteenth-century journalist of Boston's Black elite class / Julia Harrington Duff and the political awakening of Irish-American women in Boston, 1888-1905 / "The simplest of New England spinsters" : becoming Emily Greene Balch, 1867-1961 / Beyond servants and salesgirls : working women's education in Boston, 1885-1915 / Susan L. Porter -- James M. Wallace -- Paul R. Dauphinais -- Henry F. Bedford -- Linda M. Shoemaker -- Nancy Bowman -- Rodger Streitmatter -- Polly Welts Kaufman -- Patricia A. Palmieri -- Laurie Crumpacker.
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"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."--Jacket.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
0585153922 9780585153926 1122054335 9781122054331
1800-1899
Women--History--Massachusetts--19th century--Congresses.
Women--Employment--History--Massachusetts--19th century--Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
Social conditions
Women.
Women--Employment.
Women--history.
Social Change.
Employment--history.
Massachusetts--Social conditions--Congresses.
Massachusetts.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HQ1438.M4 / W63 1996eb
305.4/09744/09034