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

by Noralee Frankel (Editor), Nancy Dye (Editor)

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.

Atlanta's African-American women's attack on segregation, 1900-1920 / Jacqueline A. Rouse --
Politicizing domesticity : Anglo, Black, and Latin women in Tampa's progressive movements / Nancy A. Hewitt --
When your work is not who you are : the development of a working-class consciousness among Afro-American women / Sharon Harley --
Landscapes of subterfuge : working-class neighborhoods and immigrant women / Ardis Cameron --
Reconstructing the "family" : women, progressive reform, and the problem of social control / Eileen Boris --
Law and a living : the gendered content of "free labor" / Alice Kessler-Harris --
Hull House goes to Washington : women and the Children's Bureau / Molly Ladd-Taylor --
Working it out : gender, profession, and reform in the career of Alice Hamilton / Barbara Sicherman --
African-American women's networks in the anti-lynching crusade / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn --
Harriot Stanton Blatch and the transformation of class relations among woman suffragists / Ellen Carol DuBois --
Paradigms gained : further readings in the history of women in the progressive era / Susan Tank Lesser

208 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1991

Reviews

[Tammy Prater · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some pretty good essays in here.