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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
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