Education and women's work : female schooling and the division of labor in urban America, 1870-1930 / / John L. Rury |
Autore | Rury John L. <1951-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 1991 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 277 pages) |
Disciplina | 376/.63/0973 |
Collana | SUNY series on women and work |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Education (Secondary) - United States - History
Women - Employment - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-4384-1835-3
0-585-05633-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778995403321 |
Rury John L. <1951->
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Education and women's work : female schooling and the division of labor in urban America, 1870-1930 / / John L. Rury |
Autore | Rury John L. <1951-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 1991 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 277 pages) |
Disciplina | 376/.63/0973 |
Collana | SUNY series on women and work |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Education (Secondary) - United States - History
Women - Employment - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-4384-1835-3
0-585-05633-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Women at School: The Feminization of American High Schools, 1870-1900 -- Visions of Equality -- Feminization of the High School -- The Coeducation Question -- Equality and the Curriculum -- Conclusion: An Age of Opportunity -- 2. Participation and Purpose in Women's Education: Who Went to School, and Why -- Who Went to School -- Female School Participation, 1870-1900: An Ecological Analysis -- The Personal Record -- Conclusion: Stepping into a Larger World -- 3. Women at Work: Female Labor Force Participation and Education, 1890-1930 -- The Changing Shape of Women's Work, 1890-1930 -- School-Leaving and Labor Force Participation: Regional Differences -- Occupations and Education -- Ethnicity, Education, and Women's Work -- Conclusion: Opportunities and Constraints in Female Employment -- 4. Vocationalism Ascendant: Women and the High School Curriculum, 1890-1930 -- New Purposes in Women's Education -- The Home Economics Movement -- Commercial Education: A Vocational Groundswell -- Industrial Education for Women -- The Changing Face of Coeducation -- Regional Patterns of Female Participation in High School Courses -- Conclusion: Educational Policy and Women's Work -- 5. Varieties of Adaptation: Local Patterns of Women's Education and Work -- Education and Women's Work in Two Cities -- Women's Work and the High School Curriculum: Patterns of Adaptation -- Education and Social Class: Women in Clerical Courses -- Conclusion: Education and Local Labor Markets -- Conclusion -- Statistical Appendix: Teenage School Attendance in the Latter Nineteenth Century -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Women at School: The Feminization of American High Schools, 1870-1900 -- 2. Participation and Purpose in Women's Education: Who Went to School and Why.
3. Women at Work: Female Labor Force Participation and Education, 1890-1930 -- 4. Vocationalism Ascendant: Women and the High School Curriculum, 1890-1930 -- 5. Varieties of Adaptation: Local Patterns of Women's Education and Work -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |
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Rury John L. <1951->
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A Fatal Drifting Apart : Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform / / Laura M. Westhoff |
Autore | Westhoff Laura M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 309 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/40977311 |
Collana | Urban life and urban landscape |
Soggetto topico |
Social ethics - Illinois - Chicago - History
Social reformers - Illinois - Chicago - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "He who merits victory" : liberal republicanism and the crisis of the 1890s -- "To serve as a medium of acquaintance and sympathy" : the Civic Federation and conflicting visions of democratic social knowledge -- "To add the social function to democracy" : Jane Addams, Hull House, and democratic social knowledge -- "Such a piece of business folly" : labor arbitration and class struggles over democratic social knowledge -- "The struggle is bound to take in the Negro" : race and democratic social knowledge -- "Drawn on rational and scientific lines" : the fate of democratic social knowledge -- Epilogue. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524662303321 |
Westhoff Laura M
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Fractured modernity : America confronts modern times, 1890s to 1940s / / Herausgegeben von Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff unter Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Müller-Luckner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | München, [Germany] : , : R. Oldenbourg Verlag, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 309.173 |
Collana | Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / General |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-11-044674-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Vorwort -- List of Conference Participants -- Fractured Modernity - Fractured Experiences - Fractured Histories: An Introduction / Welskopp, Thomas / Lessoff, Alan -- 1. Constructions of Consciousness -- "Peculiarly a phenomenon of modern times"1: Bachelors, Urban Vice, and Strategies of Regulation in Modern America, 1870-1930 / Martschukat, Jürgen -- The "True Worship of Life": Changing Notions of Happiness, Morality, and Religion in the United States, 1890-1940 / Siemens, Daniel -- 2. Transnational Perspectives -- American Progressivism: Transnational, Modernization, and Americanist Perspectives / Lessoff, Alan -- Conservation: America's Environmental Modernism? / Uekötter, Frank -- 3. Media, Politics, and Political Economy -- The Press and the Repeal of National Prohibition / Udris, Linards -- Modernity and Political Economy in the New Era and New Deal / Nichols, Christopher McKnight -- 4. Race and Claims to Modernity -- Lynching and the Ambivalence of Modernity / Berg, Manfred -- Torture and "Modern Civilization": The NAACP's Fight against Forced Confessions in the American South (1935-1945) / Niedermeier, Silvan -- 5. The Search for a Cultural Core of Modernity -- The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935 / Finzsch, Norbert -- The Scopes Trial in the Context of Competing Modernity Discourses / Hochgeschwender, Michael -- Conclusion / Lessoff, Alan -- Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910345974603321 |
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Fractured modernity : America confronts modern times, 1890s to 1940s / / Herausgegeben von Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff unter Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Müller-Luckner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | München, [Germany] : , : R. Oldenbourg Verlag, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 309.173 |
Collana | Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / General |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-11-044674-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Vorwort -- List of Conference Participants -- Fractured Modernity - Fractured Experiences - Fractured Histories: An Introduction / Welskopp, Thomas / Lessoff, Alan -- 1. Constructions of Consciousness -- "Peculiarly a phenomenon of modern times"1: Bachelors, Urban Vice, and Strategies of Regulation in Modern America, 1870-1930 / Martschukat, Jürgen -- The "True Worship of Life": Changing Notions of Happiness, Morality, and Religion in the United States, 1890-1940 / Siemens, Daniel -- 2. Transnational Perspectives -- American Progressivism: Transnational, Modernization, and Americanist Perspectives / Lessoff, Alan -- Conservation: America's Environmental Modernism? / Uekötter, Frank -- 3. Media, Politics, and Political Economy -- The Press and the Repeal of National Prohibition / Udris, Linards -- Modernity and Political Economy in the New Era and New Deal / Nichols, Christopher McKnight -- 4. Race and Claims to Modernity -- Lynching and the Ambivalence of Modernity / Berg, Manfred -- Torture and "Modern Civilization": The NAACP's Fight against Forced Confessions in the American South (1935-1945) / Niedermeier, Silvan -- 5. The Search for a Cultural Core of Modernity -- The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935 / Finzsch, Norbert -- The Scopes Trial in the Context of Competing Modernity Discourses / Hochgeschwender, Michael -- Conclusion / Lessoff, Alan -- Authors |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996309122703316 |
München, [Germany] : , : R. Oldenbourg Verlag, , 2012 | ||
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From abolition to rights for all [[electronic resource] ] : the making of a reform community in the nineteenth century / / John T. Cumbler |
Autore | Cumbler John T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.7114 |
Soggetto topico |
Abolitionists - United States - History - 19th century
Social reformers - United States - History - 19th century Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8122-0382-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "Till Every Yoke Is Broken" -- Chapter 1. The People and the Times -- Chapter 2. "With Other Good Souls" -- Chapter 3. "All the Great Men and Men of Respectability Stood Aloof' -- Chapter 4. "To Do Battle for Justice and the Oppressed" -- Chapter 5. "The Issue Is Universal justice" -- Chapter 6. "Blessed Are They Who When Some Great Cause... Calls Them ... Come" -- Chapter 7. Bringing Together the Professional and the Political -- Chapter 8. "Public Society Owes Perfect Protection": The State and the People's Rights -- Chapter 9. "A Relative Right" -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463231903321 |
Cumbler John T
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From abolition to rights for all [[electronic resource] ] : the making of a reform community in the nineteenth century / / John T. Cumbler |
Autore | Cumbler John T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.7114 |
Soggetto topico |
Abolitionists - United States - History - 19th century
Social reformers - United States - History - 19th century Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies |
ISBN | 0-8122-0382-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "Till Every Yoke Is Broken" -- Chapter 1. The People and the Times -- Chapter 2. "With Other Good Souls" -- Chapter 3. "All the Great Men and Men of Respectability Stood Aloof' -- Chapter 4. "To Do Battle for Justice and the Oppressed" -- Chapter 5. "The Issue Is Universal justice" -- Chapter 6. "Blessed Are They Who When Some Great Cause... Calls Them ... Come" -- Chapter 7. Bringing Together the Professional and the Political -- Chapter 8. "Public Society Owes Perfect Protection": The State and the People's Rights -- Chapter 9. "A Relative Right" -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787546603321 |
Cumbler John T
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From abolition to rights for all [[electronic resource] ] : the making of a reform community in the nineteenth century / / John T. Cumbler |
Autore | Cumbler John T |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.7114 |
Soggetto topico |
Abolitionists - United States - History - 19th century
Social reformers - United States - History - 19th century Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies |
ISBN | 0-8122-0382-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: "Till Every Yoke Is Broken" -- Chapter 1. The People and the Times -- Chapter 2. "With Other Good Souls" -- Chapter 3. "All the Great Men and Men of Respectability Stood Aloof' -- Chapter 4. "To Do Battle for Justice and the Oppressed" -- Chapter 5. "The Issue Is Universal justice" -- Chapter 6. "Blessed Are They Who When Some Great Cause... Calls Them ... Come" -- Chapter 7. Bringing Together the Professional and the Political -- Chapter 8. "Public Society Owes Perfect Protection": The State and the People's Rights -- Chapter 9. "A Relative Right" -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827478503321 |
Cumbler John T
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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America [[electronic resource] ] : From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress / / by Rebecca Fraser |
Autore | Fraser Rebecca |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
Disciplina |
305.30973
973.6092 |
Collana | Genders and Sexualities in History |
Soggetto topico |
United States—History
History, Modern Social history America—History US History Modern History Social History History of the Americas |
ISBN |
1-283-86784-2
1-137-29185-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories and Writing History; 1 ""Everything Here is So Different"": Changing Cultural Landscapes; 2 An Identity in Transit: From ""True Woman"" to ""Southern Lady""; 3 Familial Relations: North and South; 4 Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy; 5 Reconstructing Southern Womanhood; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786584103321 |
Fraser Rebecca
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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America [[electronic resource] ] : From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress / / by Rebecca Fraser |
Autore | Fraser Rebecca |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
Disciplina |
305.30973
973.6092 |
Collana | Genders and Sexualities in History |
Soggetto topico |
United States—History
History, Modern Social history America—History US History Modern History Social History History of the Americas |
ISBN |
1-283-86784-2
1-137-29185-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories and Writing History; 1 ""Everything Here is So Different"": Changing Cultural Landscapes; 2 An Identity in Transit: From ""True Woman"" to ""Southern Lady""; 3 Familial Relations: North and South; 4 Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy; 5 Reconstructing Southern Womanhood; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817527803321 |
Fraser Rebecca
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