Independent women
Vicinus, Martha
Independent women : work and community for single women, 1850-1920 / Martha Vicinus - Chicago London : University of Chicago Press, 1988, - xv, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm. - Women in culture and society. .
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
9780226855684
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
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 conditions.
305.4890 VIC
Independent women : work and community for single women, 1850-1920 / Martha Vicinus - Chicago London : University of Chicago Press, 1988, - xv, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm. - Women in culture and society. .
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
9780226855684
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
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 conditions.
305.4890 VIC
