TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vicinus, Martha
AU  - Vicinus, Martha
TI  - Independent women:  : work and community for single women, 1850-1920
T2  - Women in culture and society
SN  - 9780226855684
U1  - 305.4890 VIC 
PY  - 1988///,
CY  - Chicago  London
PB  - : University of Chicago Press, 
KW  -  Social sciences
KW  -  Groups of people
KW  - Single women -- England -- Social conditions
KW  - Middle class -- England -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Single women -- Employment -- England -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Single women -- Social conditions
N1  - 	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
N2  - 	
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
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