Respectability and Reform : Irish American Women's Activism, 1880-1920 / Tara M. McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Tara M., author.

Series:

Irish studies.

Irish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ladies' Land League--History.

Ladies' Land League.

Irish Americans--Politics and government.

Irish Americans.

Irish American women--History.

Irish American women.

Women social reformers--United States--History.

Women social reformers.

Women--Suffrage--United States--History.

Women.

Labor movement--United States--History.

Labor movement.

Irish question.

Women political activists--United States--History.

Women political activists.

Irish American women--Political activity.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"This project offers a national study of the different agendas and strategies pursued by Irish American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, focusing on their roles in diaspora nationalism, the labor movement, and the suffrage movement."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. Life and labor

Life in the Irish American community: an overview

Radicals and reformers: the origins of women's labor activism and alliances

Part 2. Irish nationalism

Charitable Colleens or voracious viragoes? The influence of the Ladies' Land League and its legacy

Propaganda, protest, purchasing, and picketing: Irish American women's nationalist strategies in the twentieth century

The suffrage movement

The politics of identity: Irish Americans and woman suffrage in the nineteenth century

Twentieth-century connections: suffrage tactics, trade unionists, and the lessons of Tammany Hall

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815654360

0815654367

OCLC:

1019845717