American Women In The Progressive Era 1900 1920

Author : Dorothy Schneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816025138
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 written by Dorothy Schneider and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the changing role of women in American society in the early years of the twentieth century

Author : Dorothy Schneider
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Workplace written by Dorothy Schneider and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope is confined to women's paid work, excluding contributions made on the home front. A 16-page introduction chronicling the history of women and work in America is followed by entries in A-Z arrangement, each with see also references and at least one bibliographic citation. Most entries are biographical, but others discuss issues, themes, categories of work, or organizations and institutions, e.g. academic women, apprentices, architects, artists, sexual harassment, nontraditional occupations, White House Conference on Children (1909). This reference is useful in particular for access to information about some lesser known important women. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Noralee Frankel
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813148529
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era written by Noralee Frankel and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781438136349
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women at War written by Jane Bingham and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the role of women during the Progressive Era and World War I and the growth of women's suffrage.

Author : Laura Levine
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780805716337
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking Alternatives written by Laura Levine and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael McGerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439136033
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fierce Discontent written by Michael McGerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie and the super-rich, who spent unheard-of sums of money and became the wealthiest class of Americans since the Revolution. Yet the full story of those decades is far more than the sum of its characters. In Michael McGerr's A Fierce Discontent America's great political upheaval is brilliantly explored as the root cause of our modern political malaise. The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, with its first large-scale businesses, newly dominant cities, and an explosion of wealth, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. Everything was open to question -- family life, sex roles, race relations, morals, leisure pursuits, and politics. For a time, it seemed as if the middle-class utopians would cause a revolution. They accomplished an astonishing range of triumphs. From the 1890s to the 1910s, as American soldiers fought a war to make the world safe for democracy, reformers managed to outlaw alcohol, close down vice districts, win the right to vote for women, launch the income tax, take over the railroads, and raise feverish hopes of making new men and women for a new century. Yet the progressive movement collapsed even more spectacularly as the war came to an end amid race riots, strikes, high inflation, and a frenzied Red scare. It is an astonishing and moving story. McGerr argues convincingly that the expectations raised by the progressives' utopian hopes have nagged at us ever since. Our current, less-than-epic politics must inevitably disappoint a nation that once thought in epic terms. The New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Great Society, and now the war on terrorism have each entailed ambitious plans for America; and each has had dramatic impacts on policy and society. But the failure of the progressive movement set boundaries around the aspirations of all of these efforts. None of them was as ambitious, as openly determined to transform people and create utopia, as the progressive movement. We have been forced to think modestly ever since that age of bold reform. For all of us, right, center, and left, the age of "fierce discontent" is long over.

Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911657
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American History: A Very Short Introduction written by Paul S. Boyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.

Author : Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404208698
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Suffrage written by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what life was like for women in the late 1800s in the United States, how the women's suffrage movement was started, and the struggle to gain the right to vote, finally granted in 1920.

Author : Jane Addams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.BJ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Women Should Vote written by Jane Addams and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kirstin Olsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440863296
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of Women in the Progressive Era written by Kirstin Olsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the social change that took place in the lives of women during the Progressive Era. The political and social change of the Progressive Era brought conflicts over labor, women's rights, consumerism, religion, sexuality, and many other aspects of American life. As Americans argued and fought over suffrage and political reform, vast changes were also taking place in women's professional, material, personal, recreational, and intellectual lives. In this installment of Greenwood's Daily Life through History series, award-winning author Kirstin Olsen brings to life the everyday experiences, priorities, and challenges of women in America's Progressive Era (ca. 1890–1920). From the barnstorming "bloomer girls" who showed America that women could play baseball to film star, tycoon, and co-founder of the Academy of Motion Pictures Mary Pickford, and from the highly skilled "Hello Girls"—telephone operators who helped win World War I—to the remarkable journalist and civil rights activist Ida Wells-Barnett, women led both famous and ordinary lives that were shaped by and helped to drive the dramatic social change taking place during the Progressive Era. All of this and more is described in this book through topical sections as well as stories and profiles that reveal to readers the daily lives of America's women who lived during the Progressive Era. Readers will benefit from Olsen's characteristically sharp eye for detail, power of description, and breadth of historical knowledge.