Midwestern Women

Work, Community, and Leadership at the Crossroads

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

Av Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Wendy Hamand Venet

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" . . . an excellent introduction to a complex subject. Anyone interested in the Midwest or in women's history will find it a valuable resource." —Agricultural History" . . . the volume as a whole invigorates the field of midwestern history." —Wisconsin Magazine of History" . . . examines four centuries of Midwestern women's history, including urban and rural, frontier settlers and American Indians, Mexican and European migrants. The book mixes telling anecdotes with scholarly research." —Indianapolis StarWriting about four centuries of midwestern women's history, including urban, rural, and frontier women, Native Americans, African Americans, Mexicanas, as well as European migrants, essayists discuss ways midwestern women's lives resemble those women of other regions and ways in which their lives are distinctive. By addressing a broad range of questions about the lives of midwestern women this volume encourages further research of this neglected but important group. The volume also includes a lengthy bibliography.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-12-22
Mått156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMidwestern History and Culture
Antal sidor296
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253211330

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Foreword by Glenda RileyIntroduction: The Strange Career of Madame Dubuque and Midwestern Women's History Wendy Hamand Venet and Lucy Eldersveld MurphyI. Four Lives1. Leadership within the Women's Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake OjibweRebecca Kugel2. Journeywoman Milliner: Emily Austin, Migration, and Women's Work in the Nineteenth Century MidwestLucy Eldersveld Murphy3. Mary McDowell and Municipal Housekeeping: Women's Political Activism in Chicago, 1890Karen M. Mason4. The Limits of Community: Martha Friesen of Hamilton County, KansasPamela Riney-KehrbergII. Community and Leadership5. "For the good of her people": Continuity and Change for Native Women of the Midwest, 1650-18506. "Those with whom I feel most nearly connected": Kinship and Gender in Early OhioTamara G. Miller7. The Ethnic Female Public Sphere: German-American Women in Turn-of-the-Century ChicagoChristiane Harzig8. Sisterhood and Community: The Sisters of Charity and African-American Women's Health Care in Indianapolis, 1876-1920Earline Rae FergusonIII. Work9. "The indescribable care devolving upon a housewife": Women's and Men's Perceptions of Pioneer Foodways on the Midwestern FrontierSarah F. McMahon10. Changing Times: Iowa Farm Women and Cooperative Home Economics Extension in the1920s and1950sDorothy Schwieder11. Women, Unions, and Debates over Work during World War II in IndianaNancy F. Gabin12. "Making Rate": Mexicana Immigrant Workers in an Illinois Electronics PlantIrene Campos CarrBibliography