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Author : Joanne J. Meyerowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226521985
A sociological study of independent women employed outside the home in the years between 1880 and 1930 when women were traditionally expected to stay home until they married.
Author : Nina Mjagkij,Margaret Ann Spratt
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814755419
The YMCA and the YWCA have been an integral part of America's urban landscape since their emergence almost 150 years ago. Yet the significant influence these organizations had on American society has been largely overlooked. Men and Women Adrift explores the role of the YMCA and YWCA in shaping the identities of America's urban population. Examining the urban experiences of the single young men and women who came to the cities in search of employment and personal freedom, these essays trace the role of the YMCA and the YWCA in urban America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The contributors detail the YMCA's early competition with churches and other urban institutions, the associations' unique architectural style, their services for members of the working class, African Americans, and immigrants, and their role in defining gender and sexual identities. The volume includes contributions by Michelle Busby, Jessica Elfenbein, Sarah Heath, Adrienne Lash Jones, Paula Lupkin, Raymond A. Mohl, Elizabeth Norris, Cliff Putney, Nancy Robertson, Thomas Winter, and John D. Wrathall.
Author : Noriko J. Horiguchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816669783
How women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empire
Author : Joanne J. Meyerowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226521974
A sociological study of independent women employed outside the home in the years between 1880 and 1930 when women were traditionally expected to stay home until they married.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Labor
ISBN : UIUC:30112011574198
Author : Sarah Deutsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199728107
In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically. From anti-spitting campaigns and demands for police mothers to patrol local parks, to calls for a decent wage and living quarters, women rich and poor, white and black, immigrant and native-born struggled to make a place for themselves in the city. Now, in Women and the City historian Sarah Deutsch tells this story for the first time, revealing how they changed not only the manners but also the physical layout of the modern city. Deutsch shows how the women of Boston turned the city from a place with no respectable public space for women, to a city where women sat on the City Council and met their beaux on the street corners. The book follows the efforts of working-class, middle-class, and elite matrons, working girls and "new women" as they struggled to shape the city in their own interests. And in fact they succeeded in breathtaking fashion, rearranging and redefining the moral geography of the city, and in so doing broadening the scope of their own opportunities. But Deutsch reveals that not all women shared equally in this new access to public space, and even those who did walk the streets with relative impunity and protested their wrongs in public, did so only through strategic and limited alliances with other women and with men. A penetrating new work by a brilliant young historian, Women and the City is the first book to analyze women's role in shaping the modern city. It casts new light not only on urban history, but also on women's domestic lives, women's organizations, labor organizing, and city politics, and on the crucial connections between gender, space, and power.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105561112
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Labor
ISBN : MINN:31951D00371357I
Author : Betty G. Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136592782
This work on homelessness amongst women investigates how far it is a gender- based condition. Describing the lives of women without homes, and drawing upon homeless women's views of themselves and society, the book offers a cultural analysis which contains elements of an answer to the problem.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Beattie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773520198
In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimers left their homes to work in the United States or other parts of Canada. Why they left and how their departure affected the region's economy have long been debated but, until now, a major component of that exodus has been largely ignored. In Obligation and Opportunity Betsy Beattie addresses this oversight, examining the lives of the tens of thousands of single Maritime women who left to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930. Carefully crafted from oral interviews, diaries, letters, written recollections, census data, and other historical sources, Obligation and Opportunity opens a window into the world of the women who moved from the Maritimes to New England for work. Urged to stay through tales of danger and woe in the newspapers, they still left by the thousands, and in numbers larger than those for men. Beattie examines the rural families they left, the urban environment they entered in Boston, and the different occupations they filled. She sheds new light on the response of rural families to economic change and the effects of gender on choices for young women. She demonstrates that first-generation emigrants, who left out of a need to find work and send money back home, eased the way for second-generation emigrants, who left to seek opportunities in the big city. Obligation and Opportunity offers new insights not only for everyone interested in the history of the Maritimes and Boston but also for scholars and others interested in family history, women's studies, labour history, and migration studies.
Author : Abigail M. Markwyn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803267817
When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco, California, and the United States at the world’s fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and conflicts of pre–World War I California and presaged the emergence of San Francisco as a cosmopolitan cultural and economic center of the Pacific Rim. Empress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of this, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco. Focusing on the influence exerted by women, Asians and Asian Americans, and working-class labor unions, among others, Abigail M. Markwyn offers a unique analysis both of this world’s fair and the social construction of pre–World War I America and the West.
Author : Roger Horowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135304485
Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.
Author : Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604733501
The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in the next generation, moved increasingly into the middle class. Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children, two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in leading archives. In extended excerpts from the oral histories, and in thoughtful scholarly analysis of the voices, this book offers a unique window into African American women's history. These rich oral histories reveal much that is surprising. Although the Jim Crow South presented persistent dangers, the women retained warm memories of southern childhoods. Notwithstanding the burgeoning war industry, most women found themselves left out of industrial work. The North offered its own institutionalized racism; the region was not the promised land. Additionally, these African American women juggled work and family long before such battles became a staple of mainstream discussion. In the face of challenges, the women who share their tales here crafted lives of great meaning from the limited options available, making a way out of no way.
Author : Carol Berkin,Margaret S. Crocco,Barbara Winslow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0199717761
Over the last four decades, women's history has developed from a new and marginal approach to history to an established and flourishing area of the discipline taught in all history departments. Clio in the Classroom makes accessible the content, key themes and concepts, and pedagogical techniques of U.S. women's history for all secondary school and college teachers. Editors Carol Berkin, Margaret S. Crocco, and Barbara Winslow have brought together a diverse group of educators to provide information and tools for those who are constructing a new syllabus or revitalizing an existing one. The essays in this volume provide concise, up-to-date overviews of American women's history from colonial times to the present that include its ethnic, racial, and regional changes. They look at conceptual frameworks key to understanding women's history and American history, such as sexuality, citizenship, consumerism, and religion. And they offer concrete approaches for the classroom, including the use of oral history, visual resources, material culture, and group learning. The volume also features a guide to print and digital resources for further information. This is an invaluable guide for women and men preparing to incorporate the study of women into their classes, as well as for those seeking fresh perspectives for their teaching.
Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211247
A collection of 14 essays by Hine (American history, Michigan State U.) from the past 14 years, covering African-American women's history. Topics include female slave resistance, Black migration to the urban Midwest, 19th-century Black women physicians, and the Black studies movement. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR