| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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Midwestern history and culture |
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Midwestern history and culture.
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| 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 |
| Analysis |
Women Middle West History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Women -- Middle West -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Frau
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Middle West
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Mittlerer Westen
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld, 1953-
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Venet, Wendy Hamand
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| ISBN |
0585019533 |
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9780585019536 |
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