Author: Association for the Advancement of Women
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1802

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Author: Mary Ellen Waithe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0792309308
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Beverley Manning
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810812826
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: Mary Harris Rollins
Publisher:
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Ann E. Kammer
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Sharon E. Wood
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876534
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.

Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0761382658
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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It was a clear autumn night in 1847. Maria Mitchell stood on the roof of her parents' house on the island of Nantucket, focusing her telescope on a faraway star. Suddenly she realized that the faint, blurry light wasn't a star at all—it was a comet! Maria Mitchell's discovery changed her life. She became famous as the first acknowledged woman astronomer in the United States. During her many travels, Maria came to realize that most women did not have the same opportunities as men. She thought that women should be encouraged to be anything they wanted to be. This was a lesson she taught her students as an astronomy professor at Vassar College and a message she stressed as the president of the Association for the Advancement of Women. From the rooftops of Nantucket to the great observatories of Europe, Stephanie Sammartino McPherson skillfully chronicles the life of this outstanding woman.

Author: Kirsten Madden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134557035
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Contributions to female economic thought have come from prolific scholars, leading social reformers, economic journalists and government officials along with many other women who contributed only one or two works to the field. It is perhaps for this reason that a comprehensive bibliographic collection has failed to appear, until now. This innovative book brings together the most comprehensive collection to date of references to women’s economic writing from the 1770s to 1940. It includes thousands of contributions from more than 1,700 women from the UK, the US and many other countries. This bibliography is an important reference work for systematic inquiry into questions of gender and the history of economic thought. This volume is a valuable resource and will interest researchers on women's contributions to economic thought, the sociology of economics, and the lives of female social scientists and activist-authors. With a comprehensive editorial introduction, it fills a long-standing gap and will be greeted warmly by scholars of the history of economic thought and those involved in feminist economics.