History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 8/1, : Professional and White-Collar Employments / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA History 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aron, Cindy S.,; Bernard, Richard M.,; Brumberg, Joan Jacobs,; Carter, Susan B.,; Davies, Margery,; Drachman, Virginia G.,; Garrison, Dee,; Hine, Darlene Clark,; Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory,; Kryder, Giannone LeeAnne,; McGovern, Constance M.,; Morantz, Regina Markell,; Niemi, Albert W.,; Prus, Mark,; Reverby, Susan M.,; Sklar, Kathryn Kish,; Tomes, Nancy,; Vinovskis, Maris A.,; Weisberg, D. Kelly,; Zschoche, Sue,
• HerausgeberIn: Cott, Nancy F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 8/1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Professional and White-Collar Employments -- The Female School Teacher in Ante-Bellum Massachusetts -- In from the Periphery: American Women in Science, 1830–1880 -- American Female Historians in Context, 1770–1930 -- “To Barter Their Souls for Gold”: Female Clerks in Federal Government Offices, 1862–1890 -- The Duty or Right to Care? Nursing and Womanhood in Historical Perspective -- Professionalism, Feminism, and Gender Roles: A Comparative Study of Nineteenth-Century Medical Therapeutics -- Feminism, Professionalism, and Germs: The Thought of Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell -- Doctors or Ladies? Women Physicians in Psychiatric Institutions, 1872–1900 -- From Hospital to College: Black Nurse Leaders and the Rise of Collegiate Nursing Schools -- Barred from the Bar: Women and Legal Education in the United States 1870-1890 -- ‘Little World of Our Own’: The Pennsylvania Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1895–1907 -- Research Note: The Male-Female Earnings Differential. A Historical Overview of the Clerical Occupations from the 1880s to the 1970s -- The Labor Market and the American High School Girl 1890–1928 -- Woman’s Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force -- Female Solidarity and Professional Success: The Dilemma of Women Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century America -- The Tender Technicians: The Feminization of Public Librarianship, 1876–1905 -- Women in the Professions: A Research Agenda for American Historians -- Self-Assertion and Social Commitment: The Significance of Work to the Progressive Era’s New Woman