Respectability And Reform
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Respectability And Reform
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Author : Tara M. McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-02
Respectability And Reform written by Tara M. McCarthy and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-02 with Social Science categories.
In the late nineteenth century, an era in which women were expanding the influence outside the home, Irish American women carved out unique opportunities to serve the needs of their communities. For many women, this began with a commitment to Irish nationalism. In Respectability and Reform, McCarthy explores the contributions of a small group of Irish American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era who emerged as leaders, organizers, and activists. Profiles of these women suggest not only that Irish American women had a political tradition of their own but also that the diversity of the Irish American community fostered a range of priorities and approaches to activism. McCarthy focuses on three movements—the Irish nationalist movement, the labor movement, and the suffrage movement—to trace the development of women’s political roles. Highlighting familiar activists such as Fanny and Anna Parnell, as well as many lesser-known suffragists, McCarthy sheds light on the range of economic and social backgrounds found among the activists. She also shows that Irish American women’s commitment to social justice persisted from the Land War through the World War I era. In unearthing the rich and varied stories of these Irish American women, Respectablity and Reform deepens our understanding of their intersection with and contribution to the larger context of American women’s activism.
Working Their Way To Respectability
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Author : Sue Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Working Their Way To Respectability written by Sue Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Crime categories.
Work is an indicator of social worth; worthy recipients of charity were those who would willingly work. To be unemployed was to be a vagrant. Women have been ignored as a study in this field because publicly, work is seen as a man's affair.
Benefiting A City
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Author : Nancy Arlene Driscol Engle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Benefiting A City written by Nancy Arlene Driscol Engle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Social problems categories.
Reform And Respectability
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Author : Michael J. Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Reform And Respectability written by Michael J. Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Great Britain categories.
Benefitting A City
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Author : Nancy Arlene Driscol Engle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Benefitting A City written by Nancy Arlene Driscol Engle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
ABSTRACT (con't) : Catholics, especially nuns, had the advantage of experience and a charitable track record in the West, but had fewer economic resources. Poor women were in a place where they could help illuminate the limits of middle class charitable efforts. Those who found themselves on the wrong side of the law, and the women who sought to protect them from the harsh male prison environments, discovered that the inchoate character of the city could be a distinct disadvantage. "Benefiting a City" examines four different paths progressive women took as they sought to benefit Spokane. Public documents, (such as City Directories, City Council Minutes, and County Commissioner records,) form the bulk of the documentation. These illuminate the points where women's activities intersected with those of city and county leaders. Newspapers, reports of investigations, Federal Censuses, maps, oral histories, and photographs help fill in the narrative. Private documentation includes official club minutes from two different organizations, scrapbooks and letters, a diary, and a number of smaller collections.
Remaking Respectability
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Author : Victoria W. Wolcott
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Remaking Respectability written by Victoria W. Wolcott and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Social Science categories.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have been the male industrial workers who labored on the city's automobile assembly lines. African American women have largely been absent from traditional narratives of the Great Migration because they were excluded from industrial work. By placing these women at the center of her study, Victoria Wolcott reveals their vital role in shaping life in interwar Detroit. Wolcott takes us into the speakeasies, settlement houses, blues clubs, storefront churches, employment bureaus, and training centers of Prohibition- and depression-era Detroit. There, she explores the wide range of black women's experiences, focusing particularly on the interactions between working- and middle-class women. As Detroit's black population grew exponentially, women not only served as models of bourgeois respectability, but also began to reshape traditional standards of deportment in response to the new realities of their lives. In so doing, Wolcott says, they helped transform black politics and culture. Eventually, as the depression arrived, female respectability as a central symbol of reform was supplanted by a more strident working-class activism.
Talk With You Like A Woman
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Author : Cheryl D. Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2010
Talk With You Like A Woman written by Cheryl D. Hicks and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial upl
Regeneration Not Reform Respectability Evolution Religion Ritual
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Author : Percy Weston Heward
language : en
Publisher:
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Regeneration Not Reform Respectability Evolution Religion Ritual written by Percy Weston Heward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Respectability As Moral Map And Public Discourse In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Woodruff D. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Respectability As Moral Map And Public Discourse In The Nineteenth Century written by Woodruff D. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with History categories.
Despite the fact that respectability is universally recognized as a feature of nineteenth-century society, it has seldom been studied as a subject in itself. In this path-breaking book, Woodruff D. Smith interprets respectability as a highly significant cultural phenomenon, incorporating both a moral imaginary or map and a distinctive discourse. Respectability was constructed in the public spheres of Europe and the Americas and eventually came to be an aspect of social life throughout the world. From its origins in the late eighteenth century, it was a conscious response to what were perceived as undesirable aspects of modernity. It became a central feature of concepts of "the modern" itself and an essential part of the processes that, in the twentieth century, came to be called modernization and cultural globalization. Respectability – though typically associated with the bourgeoisie – existed independently of any particular social class, and strongly affected modern constructions of class in general and of gender. Although not an ideology, respectability was overtly embedded in several political discourses, especially those of movements such as antislavery which claimed to transcend politics. While it may no longer be a coherent entity in culture and discourse, respectability continues to affect contemporary public life through a fragmentary legacy.
Righteous Propagation
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Author : Michele Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2005-10-12
Righteous Propagation written by Michele Mitchell and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-12 with Social Science categories.
Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. In Righteous Propagation, Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of racial destiny, demonstrating how it forcefully linked particular visions of gender, conduct, and sexuality to collective well-being. Mitchell argues that while African Americans did not agree on specific ways to bolster their collective prospects, ideas about racial destiny and progress generally shifted from outward-looking remedies such as emigration to inward-focused debates about intraracial relationships, thereby politicizing the most private aspects of black life and spurring race activists to calcify gender roles, monitor intraracial sexual practices, and promote moral purity. Examining the ideas of well-known elite reformers such as Mary Church Terrell and W. E. B. DuBois, as well as unknown members of the working and aspiring classes, such as James Dubose and Josie Briggs Hall, Mitchell reinterprets black protest and politics and recasts the way we think about black sexuality and progress after Reconstruction.