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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.

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

Publication Date

11-19-1991

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky.

Place of Publication

Lexington, KY

ISBN

9780813108414

eISBN

9780813148526

Keywords

Women, Progressivism, Politics, United States

Disciplines

Social History

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