This grand experiment : when women entered the federal workforce in Civil War-era Washington, D.C. / Jessica Ziparo.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ziparo, Jessica, author.

Series:

• Civil War America (Series)
• Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women.
• Social conditions.
• History.
• Sex role.
• Women--Employment.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
• United States.
• Women--Employment--Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century.
• Sex role--Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century.
• United States--Officials and employees--History--19th century.
• Women--United States--Social conditions--History--19th century.
• Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.
• Women's rights.
• Employees.
• Women--Social conditions.
• Washington (D.C.).

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Contents:

• We are not playthings
• I wonder if I cannot make application for an appointment too: women join the federal workforce
• Telling her story to a man: applying for government work
• Teapots in the treasury of the nation: gendering work and space
• A strange time to seek a residence in Washington: perils and possibilities of life for female federal clerks
• The picked prostitutes of the land: reputations of female federal employees
• I am now exerting all my thinking powers: women's struggle to retain and to regain federal positions
• What makes us to differ from them?: the argument for equal pay in the nation's capital
• We do not intend to give up.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781469635972
• 1469635976

OCLC:

975985275