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Woman's being, woman's place : female identity and vocation in American history / [papers] edited by Mary Kelley.

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Corporate Author: Conference on the History of Women Saint Paul, Minn.
Other Authors: Kelley, Mary, 1943-
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Hall, ℗♭1979.
Series:Publication in women's studies.
Subjects:
Women > United States > History.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one : Sources and methodology
  • Hidden riches : legal records and women, 1750-1825 / Joan Hoff Wilson
  • Relicts of the New World : conditions of widowhood in seventeenth-century New England / Kim Lacy Rogers
  • Diaries of Frontier women : on learning to read the obscured patterns / Lillian Schlissel
  • Louisa Catherine Adams : the anguished "adventures of a nobody" / Katherine T. Corbett
  • Part two : Identity and vocation
  • I : Socialization : change and the illusion of change
  • Frozen goddess : the image of woman in turn-of-the-century American art / Ann Uhry Abrams
  • Cinderella vs. statistics : the silent movie heroine as a jazz-age working girl / Sumiko Higashi
  • Female education and school competition : 1820-1850 / Nancy Green
  • Housewifery and motherhood : the question of role change in the Progressive Era / William D. Jenkins
  • Daughters of Main Street : culture and the female community at Grinnell, 1884-1917
  • Co-education on two campuses : Berkeley and Chicago, 1890-1912 / Lynn D. Gordon
  • II : A woman's place : the halls of domesticity
  • At war with herself : Harriet Beecher Stowe as woman in conflict within the home / Mary Kelley
  • Domestic experience and feminist theory : the case of Julia Ward Howe
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton on marriage and divorce : feminist theory and domestic experience / Elisabeth Griffith
  • Juliette Low, the Girl Scouts, and the role of American women / Charles E. Strickland
  • III : Beyond the home, beyond womanhood
  • The "true woman" and the "new woman" in nineteenth-century America : feminists-abolitionists and a new concept of true womanhood / Blanche Glassman Hersh
  • "A baptism of power and liberty" : the women's crusade of 1873-1874 / Ruth Borden
  • American woman and the twentieth-century work force : the depression experience / Winifred D. Wandersee Bolin
  • Women's organizations during World War II : the interaction of class, race, and feminism
  • IV : Deviancy : conflict and resolution
  • The single woman : family and vocation among nineteenth-century reformers / Lee Chambers-Schiller
  • Tomboyism and adolescent conflict : three nineteenth-century case studies / Sharon O'Brien.

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