Author: United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Women at Work
Author: Thomas Dublin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231041676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Social origins study about the employment of women in the mills(1826-1860) enabled women to enjoy social and independence unknown to their mothers' generation.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231041676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Social origins study about the employment of women in the mills(1826-1860) enabled women to enjoy social and independence unknown to their mothers' generation.
Rosie's Mom
Author: Carrie Brown
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555535353
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555535353
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I.
The Second Line of Defense
Author: Lynn Dumenil
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631229
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation's history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as homefront volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631229
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation's history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as homefront volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era.
Women at the Front
Author: Jane E. Schultz
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
Just Us Women
Author: Jeannette Caines
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064430561
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"No boys and no men-just us women," Aunt Martha tells her niece. And together they plan their trip to North Carolina in Aunt Martha's brand-new car. This is to be a very special outing-with no one to hurry them along, the two travelers can do exactly as they please.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064430561
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"No boys and no men-just us women," Aunt Martha tells her niece. And together they plan their trip to North Carolina in Aunt Martha's brand-new car. This is to be a very special outing-with no one to hurry them along, the two travelers can do exactly as they please.
Beyond the Rebel Girl
Author: Heather Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870719394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A history of Pacific Northwest women's roles in the Industrial Workers of the World organization between 1905 and 1924"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870719394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A history of Pacific Northwest women's roles in the Industrial Workers of the World organization between 1905 and 1924"--
Handbook on Women Workers
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
1969 Handbook on Women Workers
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Labor Bibliography
Author: Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Handbook of Facts on Women Workers
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description