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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

Edited by
Katherine Joslin

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.

Volume Contents

Front Matter
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
93

‘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
94

‘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
95

‘Clara de Hirsche Home for Working Girls,’ Pamphlet, Keystone Printery, New York, 1905*
96

Chapters 1 and 2 from ‘The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs,’ Pamphlet, 1922 By Elizabeth Lindsay David
97

‘The Work of Women’s Clubs in California,’ No. 517, Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906* By Dorothea Moore
98

‘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
99

‘The Ballot for the Home,’ Equal Suffrage Leaflet, Volume VII, Number 2, March 1898* By Miss Frances E. Willard
100

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
101

‘Suffrage and Temperance,’ Boston,Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman’s Journal,circa 1912* By Alice Stone Blackwell
102

‘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
- Prefatory Note
- Map Notes and Comments
- Hull House: A Social Settlement
104

‘The Subjective Value of Social Settlements’in Philanthropy and Social Progress, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1893* By Jane Addams
‘South End House: Its 18th Year of Cumulative Progress,’ March 1910* By Robert Woods
- I
  
  Topics
- II
  
  Catalogue
106

‘Art and Labor’ in Hull House Maps and Papers, Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895 By Ellen Gates Starr
107

‘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
108

‘Organizations within the Settlement’ in The House on Henry Street, New York, Rinehart and Winston, 1915 By Lillian D. Wald
109

‘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
110

‘The Law of the Fathers’ in They Who Knock at Our Gates, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1914 By Mary Antin
111

‘The Social Settlement: What It Is and What It Does,’ privately published, Murray Brothers Press, 1913 By Anna Julia Cooper
112

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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  Journey and Impressions of the Congress
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  At the War Capitals
114

‘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
115

‘The Warlike Seven’ in Old Indian Legends, Boston and London, Ginn & Company, 1902 By Zitkala-S'a; Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
116

‘Sex Emancipation through War,’ Forum 59 (1918) By Mary Austin
117

‘What Every Woman Wants in Everyman’s House,’ Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925 By Caroline Bartlett Crane