Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era

by Noralee Frankel (Editor), Nancy S. Dye (Editor)

Overview

In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye bring together work by such notable scholars as Ellen Carol DuBois, Alice Kessler-Harris, Barbara Sicherman, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn to illuminate the lives and labor of American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1920s. Revealing the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class, the authors explore women's accomplishments in changing welfare and labor legislation; early twentieth century feminism and women's suffrage; women in industry and the work force; the relationship between family and community in early twentieth-century America; and the ways in which African American, immigrant, and working-class women contributed to progressive reform. This challenging collection not only displays the dramatic transformations women of all classes experienced, but also helps construct a new scaffolding for progressivism in general.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813108414
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	12/22/1994
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Succeeds in its ambition to uncover the story of reforming women not traditionally identified with the Progressive coalition.

Journal of American History

An outstanding contribution.

Journal of Economic History

Broadens considerably our understanding of women in the Progressive Era.

Journal of Southern History

"Succeeds in its ambition to uncover the story of reforming women not traditionally identified with the Progressive coalition." — Journal of American History

"An outstanding contribution." — Journal of Economic History

"Broadens considerably our understanding of women in the Progressive Era." — Journal of Southern History

From the Publisher

Final report of the Commission on Genesis and Lithology of Glacial Quaternary Deposits of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). No index. Essays originally delivered as papers at the Conference on Women in the Progressive Era, held March 1988 at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, on the lives and work of American women from the late 19th century to the early 1920s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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