History of women in the United States. 16, Women together : organizational life : historical articles on women's lives and activities / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Societies and clubs.

Women.

Societies--History, organization, etc.

Societies.

Women--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (530 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich, [Germany] : K. G. Saur, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Women Together".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Preface

Introduction

Women Together: Organizational Life

The "Benevolent Fair": A Study of Charitable Organization among American Women in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century / TREUDLEY, MARY BOSWORTH

Ladies Bountiful: Organized Women's Benevolence in Early 19th-century America / MELDER, KEITH

Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women's Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797-1840 / BOYLAN, ANNE M.

Timid Girls, Venerable Widows and Dignified Matrons: Life Cycle Patterns among Organized Women in New York and Boston, 1797-1840 / BOYLAN, ANNE M.

Two "Kindred Spirits": Sorority and Family in New England, 1839-1846 / TAYLOR, WILLIAM R. / LASCH, CHRISTOPHER

A "Pleasingly Oppressive" Burden: The Transformation of Domestic Service and Female Charity in Salem, 1800-1840 / LASSER, CAROL S.

Business Heads and Sympathizing Hearts: The Women of the Providence Employment Society, 1837-1858 / BENSON, SUSAN PORTER

"True Philanthropy" and the Limits of the Female Sphere: Poor Relief and Labor Organizations in Ante-Bellum Cleveland / McTIGHE, MICHAEL J.

The Silent Charity: A History of the Cincinnati Maternity Society / DICK, KRISTE LINDENMEYER

The 1893 Congress of Jewish Women: Evolution or Revolution in American Jewish Women's History? / GOLOMB, DEBORAH GRAND

Organized Mother Love: The Buffalo Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1885-1915 / SHELTON, BRENDA K.

"Our Sister's Keepers": The Minneapolis Woman's Christian Association and Housing for Working Women / WEINER, LYNN

Civilizing Kansas: Women's Organizations, 1880-1920 / UNDERWOOD, JUNE O.

Jewish Women of the Club: The Changing Public Role of Atlanta's Jewish Women (1870-1930) / WENGER, BETH S.

Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women, 1896 to 1901 / JONES, BEVERLY W.

Toward a Broader Angle of Vision in Uncovering Women's History: Black Women's Clubs Revisited / DICKSON, LYNDA F.

Beyond the Classroom: The Organizational Lives of Black Female Educators in the District of Columbia, 1890-1930 / HARLEY, SHARON

Women, Consumerism, and the National Consumers' League in the Progressive Era, 1900-1923 / WOLFE, ALLIS ROSENBERG

"Limited Only by Earth and Sky": The Louisville Woman's Club and Progressive Reform, 1900-1910 / FORDERHASE, NANCY

Kansas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1900-1930 / BRADY, MARILYN DELL

Working Girls Unite / REITANO, JOANNE

"Sisterhood and Sociability": The Utah Women's Press Club, 1891-1928 / THATCHER, LINDA / SILLITO, JOHN R.

Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930 / FREEDMAN, ESTELLE

Copyright Information

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 26, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110971118

3110971119

OCLC:

979736650