History of Women in the United States

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 2. -- Hull-House as Women's Space / Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz -- Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers / Sklar, Kathryn Kish -- POVERTY, RESPECTABILITY, AND ABILITY TO WORK / Kennedy, Susan Estabrook -- THE BONDS OF BELONGING: LEONORA O'REILLY AND SOCIAL REFORM / Bularzik, Mary J. -- FEMINISM OR UNIONISM? THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S TRADE UNION LEAGUE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT / Dye, Nancy Schrom -- Mother's Day: The Creation, Promotion and Meaning of a New Holiday in the Progressive Era / Jones, Kathleen W. -- EARLY COMMUNITY WORK OF BLACK CLUB WOMEN / Lerner, Gerda -- School Reform in the New South: The Woman's Association for the Betterment of Public School Houses in North Carolina, 1902-1919 / Leloudis II, James L. -- ORGANIZED WOMEN AS LOBBYISTS IN THE 1920'S / Johnson, Dorothy E. -- SOCIAL FEMINISM IN THE 1920s: PROGRESSIVE WOMEN AND INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION / Lemons, J. Stanley -- After Suffrage: Southern Women in the Twenties / Scott, Anne Firor -- The National Women's Relief Society and the U.S. Sheppard-Towner Act / Hefner, Loretta L. -- The Southern Summer School for Women Workers / Frederickson, Mary -- The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1930-1942 / Barber, Henry E. -- THE LADIES AND THE LYNCHERS: A LOOK AT THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN WOMEN FOR THE PREVENTION OF LYNCHING / Miller, Kathleen Atkinson -- WOMEN AGAINST PROHIBITION / Kyvig, David E. -- LADIES' DAY AT THE CAPITOL: WOMEN STRIKE FOR PEACE VERSUS HUAC / Swerdlow, Amy -- The Gender Basis of American Social Policy / Sapiro, Virginia -- Copyright Information -- Index