Author: Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Annual Announcement of the Chicago Woman's Club
Author: Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Annual Announcement of the West End Women's Club, Chicago
Author: West End Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher:
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Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Women's Culture
Author: Kathleen D. McCarthy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226555844
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226555844
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
A Shoppers’ Paradise
Author: Emily Remus
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674987276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How women in turn-of-the-century Chicago used their consumer power to challenge male domination of public spaces and stake their own claim to downtown. Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities welcome their trade. But for a long time America’s downtowns were hardly welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century to chronicle a largely unheralded revolution in women’s rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district. After the city’s Great Fire, Chicago’s downtown rose like a phoenix to become a center of urban capitalism. Moneyed women explored the newly built department stores, theaters, and restaurants that invited their patronage and encouraged them to indulge their fancies. Yet their presence and purchasing power were not universally appreciated. City officials, clergymen, and influential industrialists condemned these women’s conspicuous new habits as they took their place on crowded streets in a business district once dominated by men. A Shoppers’ Paradise reveals crucial points of conflict as consuming women accessed the city center: the nature of urban commerce, the place of women, the morality of consumer pleasure. The social, economic, and legal clashes that ensued, and their outcome, reshaped the downtown environment for everyone and established women’s new rights to consumption, mobility, and freedom.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674987276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How women in turn-of-the-century Chicago used their consumer power to challenge male domination of public spaces and stake their own claim to downtown. Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities welcome their trade. But for a long time America’s downtowns were hardly welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century to chronicle a largely unheralded revolution in women’s rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district. After the city’s Great Fire, Chicago’s downtown rose like a phoenix to become a center of urban capitalism. Moneyed women explored the newly built department stores, theaters, and restaurants that invited their patronage and encouraged them to indulge their fancies. Yet their presence and purchasing power were not universally appreciated. City officials, clergymen, and influential industrialists condemned these women’s conspicuous new habits as they took their place on crowded streets in a business district once dominated by men. A Shoppers’ Paradise reveals crucial points of conflict as consuming women accessed the city center: the nature of urban commerce, the place of women, the morality of consumer pleasure. The social, economic, and legal clashes that ensued, and their outcome, reshaped the downtown environment for everyone and established women’s new rights to consumption, mobility, and freedom.
Fannie Barrier Williams
Author: Wanda A. Hendricks
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095871
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became "raced" for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a western New York village. She carried this new awareness to Chicago, where she joined forces with black and predominantly white women's clubs, the Unitarian church, and various other interracial social justice organizations to become a prominent spokesperson for Progressive economic, racial, and gender reforms during the transformative period of industrialization. By highlighting how Williams experienced a set of freedoms in the North that were not imaginable in the South, this clearly-written, widely accessible biography expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095871
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became "raced" for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a western New York village. She carried this new awareness to Chicago, where she joined forces with black and predominantly white women's clubs, the Unitarian church, and various other interracial social justice organizations to become a prominent spokesperson for Progressive economic, racial, and gender reforms during the transformative period of industrialization. By highlighting how Williams experienced a set of freedoms in the North that were not imaginable in the South, this clearly-written, widely accessible biography expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America.
Monthly Bulletin. New Series
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Charter, Constitution, By-laws, Membership List, Annual Report
Author:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
American Art Annual
Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
New Serial Titles
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.