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Organizing Women - Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
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Organizing Women - Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered
organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing
more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in
public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and
for white men, women-both Black and white-were able to reshape
their lives and their social worlds through their participation in
these institutions.Organizing Women traces the histories of
middle-class women-rural and urban, white and Black, married and
unmarried-who used public and private institutions of print to tell
their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions.
Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley
introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library
schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their
midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters.
In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from
libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the
YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination
and racial segregation in the course of their work.
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