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Women of the commonwealth : work, family, and social change in nineteenth-century Massachusetts / edited by Susan L. Porter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585153922
  • 9780585153926
  • 1122054335
  • 9781122054331
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women of the commonwealth.DDC classification:
  • 305.4/09744/09034 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1438.M4 W63 1996eb
Other classification:
  • 15.87
  • 7,26
Online resources:
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 -- �Etre �a l'ouvrage ou �etre 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.
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  • digitized 2011 committed to preserve
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."--Jacket.
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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 / Susan L. Porter -- The feminization of teaching in Massachusetts : a reconsideration / James M. Wallace -- �Etre �a l'ouvrage ou �etre 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.

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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.

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