History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 16, : Women Together ; Organizational Life / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: BENSON, SUSAN PORTER,; BOYLAN, ANNE M.,; BRADY, MARILYN DELL,; DICK, KRISTE LINDENMEYER,; DICKSON, LYNDA F.,; FORDERHASE, NANCY,; FREEDMAN, ESTELLE,; GOLOMB, DEBORAH GRAND,; HARLEY, SHARON,; JONES, BEVERLY W.,; LASCH, CHRISTOPHER,; LASSER, CAROL S.,; MELDER, KEITH,; McTIGHE, MICHAEL J.,; REITANO, JOANNE,; SHELTON, BRENDA K.,; SILLITO, JOHN R.,; TAYLOR, WILLIAM R.,; THATCHER, LINDA,; TREUDLEY, MARY BOSWORTH,; UNDERWOOD, JUNE O.,; WEINER, LYNN,; WENGER, BETH S.,; WOLFE, ALLIS ROSENBERG,
• HerausgeberIn: Cott, Nancy F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (516 p.)

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Women Together: Organizational Life -- The “Benevolent Fair”: A Study of Charitable Organization among American Women in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century -- Ladies Bountiful: Organized Women’s Benevolence in Early 19th-century America -- Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women’s Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797–1840 -- Timid Girls, Venerable Widows and Dignified Matrons: Life Cycle Patterns among Organized Women in New York and Boston, 1797–1840 -- Two “Kindred Spirits”: Sorority and Family in New England, 1839–1846 -- A “Pleasingly Oppressive” Burden: The Transformation of Domestic Service and Female Charity in Salem, 1800–1840 -- Business Heads and Sympathizing Hearts: The Women of the Providence Employment Society, 1837–1858 -- “True Philanthropy” and the Limits of the Female Sphere: Poor Relief and Labor Organizations in Ante-Bellum Cleveland -- The Silent Charity: A History of the Cincinnati Maternity Society -- The 1893 Congress of Jewish Women: Evolution or Revolution in American Jewish Women’s History? -- Organized Mother Love: The Buffalo Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, 1885–1915 -- “Our Sister’s Keepers”: The Minneapolis Woman’s Christian Association and Housing for Working Women -- Civilizing Kansas: Women’s Organizations, 1880–1920 -- Jewish Women of the Club: The Changing Public Role of Atlanta’s Jewish Women (1870–1930) -- Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women, 1896 to 1901 -- Toward a Broader Angle of Vision in Uncovering Women’s History: Black Women’s Clubs Revisited -- Beyond the Classroom: The Organizational Lives of Black Female Educators in the District of Columbia, 1890–1930 -- Women, Consumerism, and the National Consumers’ League in the Progressive Era, 1900–1923 -- “Limited Only by Earth and Sky”: The Louisville Woman’s Club and Progressive Reform, 1900–1910 -- Kansas Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1900–1930 -- Working Girls Unite -- “Sisterhood and Sociability”: The Utah Women’s Press Club, 1891–1928 -- Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870–1930 -- Copyright Information -- Index