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Cover of American Feminism Key Source Documents 1848–1920

American Feminism: Key Source Documents 1848–1920

Edited by Janet Beer; Anne-Marie Ford; Katherine Joslin

  • Published: 11 Nov 2004
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415219457
  • Set ISBN: 9780415219457

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Women’s Clubs and Settlements


The private and social gathering together of women in nineteenth and twentieth-century America subverted public and political definitions of female activity, even as it appeared utterly conventional to an unfamiliar eye. Clubs formed by affinities of race, ethnicity, social class, and by interest, education, and religion. Women socialized informally in parlors, talking about poetry, art, drama, music, history, and even science, coming together to understand their spiritual inheritance and cultural life. Clubs developed from the seemingly casual perusal of literature and from conversations women had in their homes and debates they had in public and private schools. By the 1880s the United States had produced a first generation of young women who attended college, many of them studying at female seminaries and some at prestigious colleges, including women’s institutions such as Smith College and coeducational colleges such as Oberlin. Even formally educated women, however, were expected to marry, raise children, and secure the domestic tranquility of their families.

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction: The Gathering of Women By Katherine Joslin
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    ‘The Eighth Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs,’ No. 519, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906* By Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker
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    ‘The Meaning of the Women’s Club Movement,’ No. 513, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906* By Sarah S. Platt Decker
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    ‘The Women’s Clubs in the Middle-Western States,’ No. 515, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906* By Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman
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    ‘The Influence of Women’s Clubs in New England, and in the Middle-Eastern States,’ No. 514, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906* By May Alden Ward
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    ‘Clara de Hirsche Home for Working Girls,’ Pamphlet, Keystone Printery, New York, 1905*
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    Chapters 1 and 2 from ‘The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs,’ Pamphlet, 1922 By Elizabeth Lindsay David
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    ‘The Work of Women’s Clubs in California,’ No. 517, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906* By Dorothea Moore
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    ‘The Effect of Club Work in the South,’ No. 516, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906* By Mrs A. O. Granger; Georgia Cartersville
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    ‘The Ballot for the Home,’ Equal Suffrage Leaflet, Volume VII, Number 2, March 1898* By Miss Frances E. Willard
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    Memories of the Crusade: A Thrilling Account of the Great Uprising of the Women of Ohio in 1873, Against the Liquor Crime (Columbus: Wm. G. Hubbard and Co., 1888).* By Eliza Daniel Stewart
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    ‘Suffrage and Temperance,’ Boston,Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman’s Journal,circa 1912* By Alice Stone Blackwell
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    ‘Is Beer the Cure for the Drink Evil?’ in The Survey, February 24, 1917* By Elizabeth Tilton
  • ‘Hull House: A Social Settlement at 335 South Halstead Street,’ Chicago, Privately Published, 1894* By Jane Addams
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      Prefatory Note
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      Map Notes and Comments
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      Hull House: A Social Settlement
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    ‘The Subjective Value of Social Settlements’in Philanthropy and Social Progress, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1893* By Jane Addams
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    ‘South End House: Its 18th Year of Cumulative Progress,’ March 1910* By Robert Woods
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      Catalogue
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    ‘Art and Labor’ in Hull House Maps and Papers, Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895 By Ellen Gates Starr
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    ‘Our Sister of the Streets’ in Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade, Chicago, G.S. Ball, 1910 By Miss Florence Mabel Dedrick
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    ‘Organizations within the Settlement’ in The House on Henry Street, New York, Rinehart and Winston, 1915 By Lillian D. Wald
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    ‘Women’s Memories – Reacting on Life as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby’ in The Long Road of Woman’s Memory, New York, Macmillan, 1916 By Jane Addams
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    ‘The Law of the Fathers’ in They Who Knock at Our Gates, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1914 By Mary Antin
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    ‘The Social Settlement: What It Is and What It Does,’ privately published, Murray Brothers Press, 1913 By Anna Julia Cooper
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    A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the US, 1892–1893–1894, Chicago, Donohue & Henneberry, 1895 By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • , ‘Journey and Impressions of Congress’ and ‘At the War Capitals’ in Women at The Hague, New York, Macmillan, 1915 By Alice Hamilton
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      At the War Capitals
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    ‘Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom,’ Appendix in Peace and Bread in Time of War, New York, Macmillan, 1922 By Emily Greene Balch; Mercedes M. Randall
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    ‘The Warlike Seven’ in Old Indian Legends, Boston and London, Ginn & Company, 1902 By Zitkala-S'a; Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
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    ‘Sex Emancipation through War,’ Forum 59 (1918) By Mary Austin
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    ‘What Every Woman Wants in Everyman’s House,’ Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925 By Caroline Bartlett Crane