Independent women : work and community for single women, 1850-1920 / Martha Vicinus
Material type:
TextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Series: Women in culture and societyPublication details: Chicago London : University of Chicago Press, 1988Description: xv, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226855684Subject(s): Social sciences | Groups of people | Single women -- England -- Social conditions | Middle class -- England -- History -- 19th century | Single women -- Employment -- England -- History -- 19th century | Middle class | Single women -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.4890 VIC | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books
|
SNU LIBRARY | 305.4890 VIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | 26403 |
Browsing SNU LIBRARY shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
|
|
|
|
|
|
No cover image available | ||
| 305.48897 GRE Women in American Indian society | 305.489 GAR identity poetics | 305.489 VIC Lesbian subjects | 305.4890 VIC Independent women | 305.489664 WES Render me, gender me | 305.5 LEE Geographies and moralities | 305.50 LEV The Developing Countries Social Structure |
The Revolt against Redundancy --
Church Communities: Sisterhoods and Deaconesses' Houses --
Reformed Hospital Nursing: Discipline and Cleanliness --
Women's Colleges: An Independent Intellectual Life --
The Reformed Boarding Schools: Personal Life and Public Duty --
Settlement Houses: A Community Ideal for the Poor --
Male Space and Women's Bodies: The Suffragette.
Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual domesticity or church governance.' She wanted and needed to work. Meticulous, resonant, original, triumphant, Independent Women tells of the efforts and endurance of this Victorian woman; of her courage and the constraints that she rejected, accepted, and created. ... The independent women are the 'foremothers' of any women today who seeks significant work, emotionally satisfying friendships, and a morally charged freedom."--The Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
There are no comments on this title.