"The essays in this volume were originally delivered as papers at the Conference on Women in the Progressive Era held March 10-12, 1988, at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C."--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Atlanta's African-American women's attack on segregation, 1900-1920 / Jacqueline A. Rouse -- Politicizing domesticity : Anglo, Black, and Latin women in Tampa's progressive movements / Nancy A. Hewitt -- When your work is not who you are : the development of a working-class consciousness among Afro-American women / Sharon Harley -- Landscapes of subterfuge : working-class neighborhoods and immigrant women / Ardis Cameron -- Reconstructing the "family" : women, progressive reform, and the problem of social control / Eileen Boris -- Law and a living : the gendered content of "free labor" / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Hull House goes to Washington : women and the Children's Bureau / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- Working it out : gender, profession, and reform in the career of Alice Hamilton / Barbara Sicherman -- African-American women's networks in the anti-lynching crusade / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- Harriot Stanton Blatch and the transformation of class relations among woman suffragists / Ellen Carol DuBois -- Paradigms gained : further readings in the history of women in the progressive era / Susan Tank Lesser.
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