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Author : Vocation Office for Girls (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Vocational guidance
ISBN : OSU:32435029612462
Author : Vocation Office for Girls, Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Vocational guidance
ISBN : UCAL:B3102043
Author : Scott W. Stern
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807042762
The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, a government program to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality—and how they fought back—told through the lens of one of its survivors “A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior.”—New York Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century. Tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of women and girls were locked up—usually without due process—simply because officials suspected these women were prostitutes, carrying STIs, or just “promiscuous.” This discriminatory program, dubbed the “American Plan,” lasted from the 1910s into the 1950s, implicating a number of luminaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Earl Warren, and even Eliot Ness, while laying the foundation for the modern system of women’s prisons. In some places, vestiges of the Plan lingered into the 1960s and 1970s, and the laws that undergirded it remain on the books to this day. Nina McCall’s story provides crucial insight into the lives of countless other women incarcerated under the American Plan. Stern demonstrates the pain and shame felt by these women and details the multitude of mortifications they endured, both during and after their internment. Yet thousands of incarcerated women rioted, fought back against their oppressors, or burned their detention facilities to the ground; they jumped out of windows or leapt from moving trains or scaled barbed-wire fences in order to escape. And, as Nina McCall did, they sued their captors. In an age of renewed activism surrounding harassment, health care, prisons, women’s rights, and the power of the state, this virtually lost chapter of our history is vital reading.
Author : Chuck Latovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735230405
Suspenseful, sometimes sad, and slyly funny, THE GIRL IN THE BOSTON BOX follows two seemingly unrelated narratives linked by the urban legend of the Boston Box: hidden rooms in the city's historic buildings used for shocking crimes.Risking professional ridicule, architectural historian Caitlyn Gautry digs through Boston's past and uncovers tales of sex, death, and scandal that threaten to detonate in the present. Mark Chieswicz, rejected by his lover and by his family, struggles to understand a cryptic clue about his estranged brother's murder in a perilous attempt to hold onto a life-changing, but tainted, inheritance. Before long, the stories of Caitlyn and Mark-strangers to one another-connect in unexpected and complicated ways. Rich with insider lore about one of America's great cities, THE GIRL IN THE BOSTON BOX is a multi-layered mystery that will hold you in its grip until its exciting, emotional climax."Enough knockdown action keeps things moving at a good clip...a fun adventure with a satisfyingly dramatic conclusion." - Kirkus Reviews
Author : Tyler T. Schmidt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617037832
An exploration of writers who examine integration through the charged lens of sexuality
Author : P. C. Kemeny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190844400
The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of the Protestant establishment's prominent role in late nineteenth-century public life and its confrontation with modernity, commercial culture, and cultural pluralism in early twentieth-century America. Elite liberal Protestants, typically considered progressive, urbane, and tolerant, established the Watch and Ward Society in 1878 to suppress literature they deemed obscene, notably including Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. These self-appointed custodians of Victorian culture enjoyed widespread support from many of New England's most renowned ministers, distinguished college presidents, respected social reformers, and wealthy philanthropists. In the 1880s, the Watch and Ward Society expanded its efforts to regulate public morality by attacking gambling and prostitution. The society not only expressed late nineteenth-century Victorian American values about what constituted "good literature," sexual morality, and public duty, it also embodied Protestants' efforts to promote these values in an increasingly intellectually and culturally diverse society. By 1930, the Watch and Ward Society had suffered a very public fall from grace. Following controversies over the suppression of H.L. Mencken's American Mercury as well as popular novels such as Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, cultural modernists, civil libertarians, and publishers attacked the moral reform movement, ridiculing its leaders' privileged backgrounds, social idealism, and religious commitments. Their critique reshaped the dynamics of Protestant moral reform activity as well as public discourse in subsequent decades. For more than a generation, however, the Watch and Ward Society expressed mainline Protestant attitudes toward literature, gambling, and sexuality.
Author : Jane Bernard-Powers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136634932
This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work. Beginning with a study of the "woman question", or what women were supposed to be, the book traces the three curriculum areas from prescription, through lively discussions of policy to the actual programs and student responses to the programs. The author tells the story of education for work from several different perspectives and draws on a vast array of sources to paint this broad canvas of vocational education for young women at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015160380
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015043654394
Author : Melissa Ludtke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781978837799
While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, 26-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge’s order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media. Locker Room Talk is Ludtke’s gripping account of being at the core of this globally covered case that churned up ugly prejudices about the place of women in sports. Kuhn claimed that allowing women into locker rooms would violate his players’ “sexual privacy.” Late-night television comedy sketches mocked her as newspaper cartoonists portrayed her as a sexy, buxom looker who wanted to ogle the naked athletes’ bodies. She weaves these public perspectives throughout her vivid depiction of the court drama overseen by Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve on the federal bench. She recounts how her lawyer, F.A.O. “Fritz” Schwarz employed an ingenious legal strategy that persuaded Judge Motley to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause in giving Ludtke access identical to her male counterparts. Locker Room Talk is both an inspiring story of one woman’s determination to do a job dominated by men and an illuminating portrait of a defining moment for women’s rights.
Author : Ann Fessler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780143038979
The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. “It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post “A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1540 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015038633080
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1536 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498512
Author : Melanie Rehak
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156030564
The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy Drew was brought to life by two women. In a century- spanning story Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman.
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130382596
