Midwestern women : work, community, and leadership at the crossroads /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | Midwestern history and culture
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=563 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the strange career of Madame Dubuque and midwestern women's history / Wendy Hamand Venet and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
- Leadership within the women's community : Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe / Rebecca Kugel
- Journeywoman milliner : Emily Austin, migration, and women's work in the nineteenth-century midwest / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
- Mary McDowell and municipal housekeeping : women's political activism in Chicago, 1890-1920 / Karen M. Mason
- The limits of community : Martha Friesen of Hamilton County, Kansas / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
- For the good of her people : continuity and change for native women of the Midwest, 1650-1850 / Tanis C. Thorne
- "Those with whom I feel most nearly connected" : kinship and gender in early Ohio / Tamara G. Miller
- The ethnic female public sphere : German-American women in turn of the century Chicago / Christiane Harzig
- Sisterhood and community : the Sisters of Charity and African American Women's Health Care in Indianapolis, 1876-1920 / Earline Rae Ferguson
- "The indescribable care devolving upon a housewife" : women's and men's perceptions of pioneer foodways on the Midwestern frontier, 1780-1860 / Sarah F. McMahon
- Changing times : Iowa farm women and home economics cooperative extension in the 1920s and 1950s / Dorothy Schwieder
- Women, unions, and debates over work during World War II in Indiana / Nancy F. Gabin
- "Making rate" Mexicana immigrant workers in an Illinois electronics plant / Irene Campos Carr.