Introduction / Helen I. Safa. Globalization, inequality, and the growth of female headed households in the Caribbean / Anne Byrne -- Virgin mothers : single women negotiate the doctrine of motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Social and emotional well being of single women in contemporary America / Deborah Carr -- Widows at the Hustings : gender, citizenship, and the Montreal by election of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury -- Business widows in nineteenth century Albany, New York, 1813-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis -- "His absent presence" : the widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage / Ruth Crocker -- "Great was the benefit of his death" : the political uses of Maria Weston Chapman's widowhood / Lee V. Chambers -- United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate widows, and the lost cause : "we must not forget or neglect the widows" / Jennifer L. Gross -- Modernity's miss fits : blind girls and marriage in France and America, 1820-1920 / Catherine Kudlick -- Times that tried only men's souls : women, work, and public policy in the Great Depression / Elaine S. Abelson -- Globalization, inequality, and the growth of female headed households in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa.
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