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Woman's being, woman's place : female identity and vocation in American history

Title
Woman's being, woman's place : female identity and vocation in American history / [papers] edited by Mary Kelley.
Author
Conference on the History of Women (1977 : Saint Paul, Minn.)
Publication
Boston : Hall, ©1979.

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Additional Authors
Kelley, Mary, 1943-
Description
xiii, 372 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Statement
A Publication in women's studies
Uniform Title
Publication in women's studies.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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.
ISBN
  • 0816183244
  • 9780816183241
LCCN
79015436
OCLC
  • ocm05101581
  • 5101581
  • SCSB-209774
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library