This grand experiment : when women entered the federal workforce in Civil War-era Washington, D.C /

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In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ziparo, Jessica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
Temas:
1800-1899
Women > United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Women > Employment > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century.
Sex role > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century.
Women > United States > Social conditions > History > 19th century.
Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century.
Rôle selon le sexe > Washington (D.C.) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Employees.
Sex role.
Women.
Women > Employment.
Women > Social conditions.
Women's rights.
United States > Officials and employees > History > 19th century.
États-Unis > Fonctionnaires > Histoire > 19e siècle.
United States.
Washington (D.C.)
Electronic books.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • We are not playthings
  • I wonder if I cannot make application for an appointment too: women join the federal workforce
  • Telling her story to a man: applying for government work
  • Teapots in the treasury of the nation: gendering work and space
  • A strange time to seek a residence in Washington: perils and possibilities of life for female federal clerks
  • The picked prostitutes of the land: reputations of female federal employees
  • I am now exerting all my thinking powers: women's struggle to retain and to regain federal positions
  • What makes us to differ from them?: the argument for equal pay in the nation's capital
  • We do not intend to give up.

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