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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Women of the commonwealth. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1996 (OCoLC)654810802 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan L Porter |
| ISBN: | 1558490051 9781558490055 1558490043 9781558490048 |
| OCLC Number: | 32665535 |
| Notes: | Papers presented at a symposium at Westfield State College in October 1992. |
| Description: | viii, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Victorian values in the marketplace : single women and work in Boston, 1800-1850 / Susan L. Porter -- The feminization of teaching in Massachusetts : a reconsideration / James M. Wallace -- Étre à l'ouvrage ou étre maitresse de maison : French-Canadian women and work in late nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Paul R. Dauphinais -- Good men and "working girls" : the bureau of statistics of labor, 1870-1900 / Henry F. Bedford -- The gendered foundations of social work education in Boston, 1904-1930 / Linda M. Shoemaker -- Caroline Healey Dall : her creation and reform career / Nancy Bowman -- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin : a nineteenth-century journalist of Boston's Black elite class / Rodger Streitmatter -- Julia Harrington Duff and the political awakening of Irish-American women in Boston, 1888-1905 / Polly Welts Kaufman -- "The simplest of New England spinsters" : becoming Emily Greene Balch, 1867-1961 / Patricia A. Palmieri -- Beyond servants and salesgirls : working women's education in Boston, 1885-1915 / Laurie Crumpacker. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Susan L. Porter. |
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